The principal of the first college to be rated “outstanding” under Ofsted’s new framework has warned that “you can’t hide anything” if you want to achieve the top grade. Karen Dobson was celebrating ...

An overseas businessman whose adult education provider went bust has bought a subsidiary jewellery academy back from ...

But experts have warned the initiative risks repeating the failures of the ‘skills toolkits’ platform rolled out during the pandemic, which closed after two years marred by unreliable course ...

Foundation apprenticeships are level 2 programmes for people aged 16 to 21, or up to 24 if the person has an education, health and care plan, is a care leaver or has been in prison. The programmes are ...

Warwickshire College Group (WCG) claims to have “restored financial stability” after a “difficult” couple of years that involved repaying more than £5 million.

A sealed court order shows the High Court ruled Marples and his family of co-claimants must pay £1.05 million “on account of the defendant’s costs”, after the DfE achieved a “complete victory” by ...

We should consider structural changes, such as the 14-19 model used in Europe, but yet again we’re just tinkering with qualifications ...

Tilting levy funding towards younger learners may sound simple, but blunt cuts and cliff-edge defunding would choke off progression ...

Nationally, the government expects a reduction of between 20 to 25 per cent to the volume of core education, which offers prisoners literacy and numeracy courses up to level 2, as well as ICT and ...

Staff at 25 colleges now to strike for three days next week ...

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A “compromise approach” to a dispute about forcing colleges to move the start of their financial year from August to April ...