FE workforce

What Building Better Opportunities teaches us about stimulating labour market participation

Locally led, well-resourced and longer-term programmes could see us out of the current crisis in labour market participation, writes...

JL Dutaut
Graham Duxbury
Colleges, FE workforce

Strikewatch: The colleges with staff on the picket line in 2023

Union members' fight for fair pay continues

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Colleges, FE workforce

Struggling college to suffer 14 days of strikes after refusing ‘financially unviable’ pay demand

UCU members will walk out over six weeks during exam season over £1,160 pay offer

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
FE workforce

How FE can turn the recruitment crisis into an opportunity

FE faces the same workforce pressures as the sectors that rely on it for their talent pipelines but it...

JL Dutaut
Dean Renphrey
Colleges, FE workforce

AoC refuses to make college pay proposal

Membership body says any recommendation currently will be 'an insult to the hard-working staff'

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
FE workforce, Ofsted

Ofsted inspectors and senior DfE officials to ballot for strike action

FDA union announces first national strike ballot over pay in over 40 years

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
FE workforce

‘Growing our own’ can help plug gaps in recruitment

The challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers at all levels is becoming increasingly acute, exacerbated in FE due to...

JL Dutaut
Sarah Marquez
FE workforce

We know how to fix FE’s staffing shortages. It’s time college leaders did it

In-work poverty is a reality for many FE staff, writes Maxine Looby, and ignoring recommendations for pay awards every...

JL Dutaut
Maxine Looby
Colleges, FE workforce

Low pay and high turnover of college teachers uncovered

New findings from the Institute for Fiscal Studies lifts the lid on just how bad teacher pay and turnover...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen