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City & Guilds CEO and CFO placed on leave for ‘short period’

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🌍 Colleges are being encouraged to expand their education offer overseas, with ministers pledging to slash regulation and support cash flow

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January 20, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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'The success of the youth guarantee won’t happen in Whitehall. It will happen on the shop floor, in the office and on site. Line managers are the lynchpins.'

✍️ Petra Wilton, of @cmi-managers.bsky.social

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Accidental bosses risk undermining youth guarantee
The CMI is calling on ministers to support training that professionalises management
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January 19, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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'ITPs should also assume they will be drawn into the spotlight'
Sunita Gordon of @saferspace.io on the implications of the Duty of Care law
Colleges and training providers should assume scrutiny of learner protection is about to intensify
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January 19, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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🏃 This week's movers features a charity trekker who walked around North Yorkshire in under 24 hours

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 519
This week's movers features a major charity-trekker who walked around North Yorkshire in under 24 hours
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January 19, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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For Pearson National Teaching Awards FE lecturer of the year Lisa Charles, although teaching hairdressing at Nescot is the core job, it’s the pastoral care she provides for her students that’s often her most important task

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Day in the life with hairdressing lecturer Lisa Charles
Nescot hairdressing lecturer Lisa Charles is Pearson National Teaching Awards FE lecturer of the year. But her job is sometimes more about psychology than hair
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January 19, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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'“You’ll never grow old, and you’ll never die. But you must feed…” was the line from The Lost Boys movie
Luke Denny of Carlisle College on what GCSE resitters have in common with eighties vampires...
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January 16, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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🔍 City & Guilds’ new owner PeopleCert has launched its own investigation into the conduct of the awarding giant’s top executives, FE Week has learned
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PeopleCert opens investigation into 'conduct' of City & Guilds execs
City & Guilds’ new owner PeopleCert has launched its own investigation into the conduct of the awarding giant’s top executives, FE Week has learned.
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January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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'More evidence is required than under previous frameworks'
Kerry Boffey of the Fellowship of Inspection Nominees on what was revealed from Ofsted's first post-reform visits
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January 16, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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🏆 Ofsted released its first new-style inspection report cards this week. We spoke with the boss of an ITP that was assessed, to learn what leaders can expect from the watchdog’s human-centred approach – and what’s needed to achieve the rare ‘exceptional’ grade

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HGV trainer’s route to an ‘exceptional’ grade
First provider to get top grade under new Ofsted framework says inspections are tougher, fairer and more human
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January 16, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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⚖️ A former college lecturer has been awarded £177,000 in a tribunal battle over disability discrimination that included harassment by colleagues and false racism claims
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Disabled lecturer wins £177k discrimination payout
A former college lecturer has been awarded £177,000 in a tribunal battle over disability discrimination that included harassment by colleagues.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:40 AM
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🆕 College teachers will be expected to complete special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) training as part of government reforms, the Department for Education has announced feweek.co.uk/college-teac...
College teachers part of £200m SEND training scheme
A 'comprehensive' new package of training is hoped to 'upskill all staff in every school, college and nursery'
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January 16, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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🗞️This week's FE Week front page:

City & Guilds CEO and CFO placed on leave for ‘short period’

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January 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
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🚨City & Guilds chief executive Kirstie Donnelly and chief finance officer Abid Ismail will be 'absent' from their roles 'for a short time'

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Top two City & Guilds execs placed on leave
City & Guilds’ chief executive Kirstie Donnelly and chief finance officer Abid Ismail will "be absent from work for a short period”, staff were told
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January 15, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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🤝City & Guilds Foundation trustees have revealed they considered, but later dropped, plans for executive incentive payments linked to the sale of its awarding business, insisting the proposals were “unconnected” to large bonuses paid by the new owner

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Trustees reveal bonus ‘discussions’ as Charity Commission launches probe
The City & Guilds Foundation trustees considered, but later dropped, plans for incentive payments linked to the sale of its awarding business
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January 15, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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A college student who stalked two members of staff and filmed his victims to create deep-fake sexual images has been sentenced feweek.co.uk/student-stal...
Student stalked staff and talked to their ‘deep fakes’
College learner handed 3-year community order and lifetime restraining orders
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January 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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'Investing in skills is about building futures, not just filling vacancies'
Chris Webb, CEO of Bradford College shares his concerns about DWP's skills policy agenda
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January 15, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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Andrew Green, the chief executive of one of the country’s largest college groups, has taken a leave of absence, with his deputy stepping in

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Chichester CEO Green unable to work, staff told
Deputy chief executive covering Andrew Green's duties until further notice
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January 15, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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🆕 Deputy FE commissioner Frances Wadsworth is one of five recruits to Ofsted’s board announced today feweek.co.uk/deputy-fe-co...
Deputy FE commissioner joins Ofsted board
Frances Wadsworth among five new appointments to governing board of the inspectorate
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January 15, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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🪧 Staff in half the colleges that voted to strike this week have called off their industrial action after agreeing to pay deals or to allow time for further talks

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Half of college strikes called off as three-day walk out begins
Staff in half the colleges that voted to strike this week have called off their industrial action after agreeing to pay deals or to allow time for further talks
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January 14, 2026 at 1:40 PM
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'Structural change slows delivery and carries a hidden cost in lost corporate memory'
@johncope.bsky.social on the changes needed to drive Skills England forward
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January 14, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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🏃 Poor progress in English and maths tracks 'right back to primary school' and requires intervention at the earliest stage to break the 'treadmill' of GCSE resits in post-16 education, Ofqual’s chief regulator has said

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Ofqual boss quizzed on resit ‘treadmill’ and AI anxiety
Sir Ian Bauckham was questioned by MPs this morning
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January 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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'One can dream, at least. And AI can’t do that yet'
David Murray muses on what the future holds for those in FE teaching Gen Alpha in an AI world
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January 13, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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🫰 A care worker apprenticeship training provider is being chased for £1.2 million by the Department for Education after investigators uncovered systemic contract breaches
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Care worker provider faces £1.2m clawback
A care worker apprenticeship training provider chased for £1.2 million by the Department for Education after investigators uncover systemic contract breaches.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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✅ The first FE provider to receive Ofsted’s new highest mark has been revealed - as the watchdog published the first batch of new-style report cards

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First batch of new-style Ofsted report cards released
Just one FE provider achieves rare ‘exceptional’ grade and no colleges involved in early inspections
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January 12, 2026 at 1:54 PM