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Whitehall’s post-16 reform spree
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'Far from being remedial, pathways accelerate readiness'
Gianina Harvey-Brewin challenges the perception that foundation years and CertHEs are 'fallback options' for those who couldn’t make it onto a “real” degree
Gianina Harvey-Brewin challenges the perception that foundation years and CertHEs are 'fallback options' for those who couldn’t make it onto a “real” degree
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November 11, 2025 at 5:32 PM
'Far from being remedial, pathways accelerate readiness'
Gianina Harvey-Brewin challenges the perception that foundation years and CertHEs are 'fallback options' for those who couldn’t make it onto a “real” degree
Gianina Harvey-Brewin challenges the perception that foundation years and CertHEs are 'fallback options' for those who couldn’t make it onto a “real” degree
💰 Sixth form college teachers have accepted a pay award of 4 per cent but have rejected workload proposals by leaders
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Sixth form college teachers accept 4% pay rise
Pay award goes ‘some way’ to correcting fallout with non-academised teachers earlier this year, says NEU
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November 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
💰 Sixth form college teachers have accepted a pay award of 4 per cent but have rejected workload proposals by leaders
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🤝 Weston College has appointed Jane Hadfield as its new permanent chair of governors, following its exit from financial intervention
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NHS Hadfield to chair Weston as college’s condition improves
Health service's apprenticeships lead will lead governing board as college moves out of intervention
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November 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🤝 Weston College has appointed Jane Hadfield as its new permanent chair of governors, following its exit from financial intervention
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'There’s a hidden anxiety that many staff and students carry'
Haroon Bashir, University College Birmingham on FE's role when flags divide instead of uniting communities
Haroon Bashir, University College Birmingham on FE's role when flags divide instead of uniting communities
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November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
'There’s a hidden anxiety that many staff and students carry'
Haroon Bashir, University College Birmingham on FE's role when flags divide instead of uniting communities
Haroon Bashir, University College Birmingham on FE's role when flags divide instead of uniting communities
'A shared framework for teaching quality, workforce development and regulation – a framework connecting every part of the education landscape – can help bridge the FE-HE gap'
Dr Katerina Kolyva, @et-foundation.bsky.social
Dr Katerina Kolyva, @et-foundation.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 3:16 PM
'A shared framework for teaching quality, workforce development and regulation – a framework connecting every part of the education landscape – can help bridge the FE-HE gap'
Dr Katerina Kolyva, @et-foundation.bsky.social
Dr Katerina Kolyva, @et-foundation.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🕵️ Colleges could be forced to change their leaders if Ofsted finds they are failing to meet local skills needs
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Revealed: New Ofsted triggers for college intervention
Colleges could be forced to change their leaders if Ofsted finds they are failing to meet local skills needs
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November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🕵️ Colleges could be forced to change their leaders if Ofsted finds they are failing to meet local skills needs
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🤫 A new stage of more confidential 'targeted support' has been added to the government’s college oversight regime.
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Private ’targeted support’ to replace public intervention
A new stage of more confidential “targeted support” has been added to the government’s college oversight regime, to avoid formal intervention.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
🤫 A new stage of more confidential 'targeted support' has been added to the government’s college oversight regime.
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🔍 Former social mobility commissioner Alan Milburn will lead an ‘uncompromising’ independent investigation into rising numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), the government has announced feweek.co.uk/alan-milburn...
Alan Milburn to lead ‘uncompromising’ review into rising NEETs
Investigation will place specific focus on the impact of mental health and disability
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November 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
🔍 Former social mobility commissioner Alan Milburn will lead an ‘uncompromising’ independent investigation into rising numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), the government has announced feweek.co.uk/alan-milburn...
🤝 Chris Millward will reprise his role as OfS's director for fair access and participation on a part-time, interim basis next year
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Ministers bring back first OfS fair-access chief
Chris Millward will return on an interim basis after John Blake announced he will stand down as director for fair access and participation
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November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🤝 Chris Millward will reprise his role as OfS's director for fair access and participation on a part-time, interim basis next year
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🤝 Long-serving principal Chris Nattress is set to retire after steering Lakes College out of government intervention feweek.co.uk/cumbrian-col...
Cumbrian college principal retires after 16 years
Chris Nattress will be replaced by Mark Fell at Lakes College
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November 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🤝 Long-serving principal Chris Nattress is set to retire after steering Lakes College out of government intervention feweek.co.uk/cumbrian-col...
Britain’s oldest adult learning charity, @weaadulted.bsky.social is opening new doors even as others close, as it navigates the shift from skills for life to skills for work @simonparkinson.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Britain’s oldest adult learning charity, @weaadulted.bsky.social is opening new doors even as others close, as it navigates the shift from skills for life to skills for work @simonparkinson.bsky.social
🏏 This week's movers features a cricket fanatic that founded a women's cricket team in their hometown
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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 512
This week's movers features a cricket fanatic that founded a women's cricket team in their hometown
feweek.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🏏 This week's movers features a cricket fanatic that founded a women's cricket team in their hometown
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'It’s about using online delivery where it’s easier to staff'
Mark Dawe of @theskillsnetwork.bsky.social on how online skills delivery can solve ITP staffing shortages
Mark Dawe of @theskillsnetwork.bsky.social on how online skills delivery can solve ITP staffing shortages
feweek.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
'It’s about using online delivery where it’s easier to staff'
Mark Dawe of @theskillsnetwork.bsky.social on how online skills delivery can solve ITP staffing shortages
Mark Dawe of @theskillsnetwork.bsky.social on how online skills delivery can solve ITP staffing shortages
'This government's blind spot about employers is beginning to cause problems'
Ben Rowland of AELP on why employers are the most important stakeholders when it comes to skills reforms
Ben Rowland of AELP on why employers are the most important stakeholders when it comes to skills reforms
feweek.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
'This government's blind spot about employers is beginning to cause problems'
Ben Rowland of AELP on why employers are the most important stakeholders when it comes to skills reforms
Ben Rowland of AELP on why employers are the most important stakeholders when it comes to skills reforms
🏆 A former refugee-turned-ESOL tutor and an apprentice determined to decarbonise the capital are among this year’s finalists in the Mayor of London adult learning awards
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Refugee-turned-tutor and green apprentice lead London’s learning shortlist
London's most inspiring adult learners, employers and learning organisations have been shortlisted
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November 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🏆 A former refugee-turned-ESOL tutor and an apprentice determined to decarbonise the capital are among this year’s finalists in the Mayor of London adult learning awards
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🗣️ A Reform UK mayor’s plans to ditch ESOL courses because they don’t benefit 'native' residents have not yet been copied elsewhere in England, an FE Week investigation has found
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Jenkyns’ Reform of ESOL remains an outlier… for now
A Reform UK mayor’s plans to ditch ESOL courses because they don’t benefit 'native' residents have not yet been copied elsewhere in England.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
🗣️ A Reform UK mayor’s plans to ditch ESOL courses because they don’t benefit 'native' residents have not yet been copied elsewhere in England, an FE Week investigation has found
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'Many college leaders would love to focus more on enrichment but simply have to prioritise other things'
Lisa Humphries of NAMSS on why FE needs its own enrichment framework, not one designed for schools
Lisa Humphries of NAMSS on why FE needs its own enrichment framework, not one designed for schools
feweek.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
'Many college leaders would love to focus more on enrichment but simply have to prioritise other things'
Lisa Humphries of NAMSS on why FE needs its own enrichment framework, not one designed for schools
Lisa Humphries of NAMSS on why FE needs its own enrichment framework, not one designed for schools
🗣️ AELP conference round-up: Smith and Ridley-Pepper seek to soothe over skills reform feweek.co.uk/aelp-confere...
AELP conf: DWP seek to soothe over apprenticeship reform
Top government officials offered updates on key skills reforms during this week’s Association of Employment and Learning Providers autumn conference. Here’s what we learned.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🗣️ AELP conference round-up: Smith and Ridley-Pepper seek to soothe over skills reform feweek.co.uk/aelp-confere...
👨⚖️ Analysis: Why the judge found no grudge and no duty of care as DfE defeated Marples’ £37m+ 3aaa High Court claim feweek.co.uk/judge-finds-...
Judge finds no grudge as DfE defeats Marples’ £37m 3aaa claim
A full report on the High Court showdown's conclusion
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November 7, 2025 at 7:33 AM
👨⚖️ Analysis: Why the judge found no grudge and no duty of care as DfE defeated Marples’ £37m+ 3aaa High Court claim feweek.co.uk/judge-finds-...
🗞️This week's FE Week front page:
Whitehall’s post-16 reform spree
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#TomorrowsPapersToday
Whitehall’s post-16 reform spree
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#TomorrowsPapersToday
November 6, 2025 at 8:47 PM
🗞️This week's FE Week front page:
Whitehall’s post-16 reform spree
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#TomorrowsPapersToday
Whitehall’s post-16 reform spree
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#TomorrowsPapersToday
👍 Brooklands Technical College will remain a standalone institution, the FE Commissioner has decided following a six-year review feweek.co.uk/brooklands-c...
Brooklands can stand alone, says FE Commissioner
Decision ends 6 years of direct oversight for the college
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November 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
👍 Brooklands Technical College will remain a standalone institution, the FE Commissioner has decided following a six-year review feweek.co.uk/brooklands-c...
'In most jobs, people don’t encounter triangular prisms'
Susan Pittock of Remit Training provides suggestions for how functional skills maths could be overhauled, after the curriculum and assessment review highlighted the qual's unpopularity with providers
Susan Pittock of Remit Training provides suggestions for how functional skills maths could be overhauled, after the curriculum and assessment review highlighted the qual's unpopularity with providers
Functional skills maths isn’t functioning, we all know it
Functional skills maths exam questions bear no resemblance to maths problems of the workplace
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November 5, 2025 at 5:39 PM
'In most jobs, people don’t encounter triangular prisms'
Susan Pittock of Remit Training provides suggestions for how functional skills maths could be overhauled, after the curriculum and assessment review highlighted the qual's unpopularity with providers
Susan Pittock of Remit Training provides suggestions for how functional skills maths could be overhauled, after the curriculum and assessment review highlighted the qual's unpopularity with providers
🔍 DfE has finally set out how it will handle interventions on poorly performing apprenticeship training providers under the new Ofsted inspection regime, which begins next week
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DfE sets out apprenticeship intervention rules for new Ofsted regime
Sanctions on poor-performing training providers will be considered on a case-by-case basis as Ofsted's new inspection regime beds in
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November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
🔍 DfE has finally set out how it will handle interventions on poorly performing apprenticeship training providers under the new Ofsted inspection regime, which begins next week
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⌛ College performance measures for English and maths will be changed so the government can monitor how much time students have in learning before they are entered for resit exams
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Francis review sparks English and maths shake-up
Review response also reveals incoming guidance for colleges on enrichment
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November 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
⌛ College performance measures for English and maths will be changed so the government can monitor how much time students have in learning before they are entered for resit exams
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