FE workforce

Teacher mentoring and leadership programmes renewed by DfE

DfE confirms £14m investment in two programmes to boost leadership and governance and new teacher mentoring

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
FE workforce

We must start playing hardball to meet our staffing challenges

The sector can’t keep selling itself cheap if it wants to fill its staffing vacancies with high-quality talent and...

JL Dutaut
Ian Pryce
FE workforce

Stop relying on more funding. Providers need to solve their own recruitment problems

There are a raft of measures FE providers can take to improve rectruitment that don’t rely on extra funding...

JL Dutaut
Alex Lockey
FE workforce

DfE hikes FE teacher training bursaries

But stricter eligibility criteria is now in place and caps have been introduced

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Colleges, FE workforce

Two days of strikes announced at Havant and South Downs College

Staff from two unions will be on the picket line after 'insulting' pay offer

Jason Noble
Jason Noble
FE workforce

DfE and Ofsted staff will strike again on budget day

Walk-out by PCS union members on March 15 will also coincide with the next national teachers' strike

Samantha Booth
Samantha Booth
FE workforce, Politics

DfE and Ofsted staff to hold one-day strike

It follows votes in favour of industrial action over pay, pensions, jobs and redundancy terms last year

Freddie Whittaker
Freddie Whittaker
FE workforce

Colleges’ local solutions to global workforce problems

A roundtable of colleges from the US, Canada and the UK revealed innovative local solutions to surprising common challenges,...

JL Dutaut
Ian Pretty
FE workforce

LSIPs will achieve little if we don’t upskill workers

The government must invest in adult education to help the millions already in the workforce who must upskill to...

JL Dutaut
David Phoenix