✋Ministers have refused to budge on their partial pause-and-review of defunding BTECs and level 3 qualifications after 455 school and college leaders challenged their plans last week feweek.co.uk/ministers-igno…

📉 Shortfalls in T Level and adult learner recruitment have contributed to 'serious cashflow issues' and triggered government intervention at a small college in Cumbria feweek.co.uk/cumbrian-colle…

🚨Launching this Friday 🚨 Education 720 takes on the mantle of our Uncivil Servant Writing fortnightly, the ex-DfE policy lead will lift the lid on the FE policy machine and the realities of delivery

👀Breaking: Ofsted has named the members of seven new external reference groups that will offer 'independent advice and challenge' as it embarks on wide-ranging reforms Out of 80 appointments, just four are from FE and skills settings: feweek.co.uk/ofsted-names-n…

🤝 Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has met with unions to discuss a 'new model' for government to work in 'partnership' with the education sector feweek.co.uk/phillipson-mee…

Just four of 80 appointments announced for Ofsted's new external reference groups have links to colleges, training providers or adult education feweek.co.uk/ofsted-names-n…

🫖 A new round of next-generation T Level contracts could be worth more than double what was previously available when offered to awarding organisations early next year feweek.co.uk/wave-3-t-level…

We’re back! Coming up in @FEweek edition 469 👋 You’ll have seen in the news this week that school exclusions are on the up. Guess what? It’s happening in FE colleges too. DfE doesn’t collect the data though - so Anviksha Patel did 👇 🧵

Now it’s time to celebrate *10 years* of our sister title Schools Week

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📉 Millions in capital funds invested into an independent training provider to help grow one of the government’s flagship Institutes of Technology have been lost following its bankruptcy earlier this year feweek.co.uk/private-provid…

Exclusive: College student suspensions have doubled since the Covid pandemic and exclusions are up 50%, never-before-seen data reveals feweek.co.uk/twice-as-many-…

🗣️ As Ofsted unveils a raft of reforms following the biggest consultation in its history, FE Week deputy editor Billy Camden seeks insights beyond the headlines with the watchdog’s chief operating officer Matthew Coffey feweek.co.uk/coffey-with-ca…

🔏 Ministers have refused to share the terms of reference for a “short review” into controversial level-3 qualification defunding plans. feweek.co.uk/btec-review-te…

📄 FE colleges, universities and training providers will have all four sub-judgments displayed alongside overall effectiveness grades on Ofsted's website for the first time, following an update to schools' profiles earlier this year. feweek.co.uk/ofsteds-websit…

In a week of milestones at Schools Week (turning *10*) and FE Week (turning 13) towers, a key member of the team also has a special anniversary ... (and he's going to hate this) Congratulations to my deputy editor and yours, Billy Camden on *10* years at EducationScape

''Let’s take those precious taxpayer pounds and bulletproof government jobs, and let’s move them to Plymouth, Hartlepool, and Blackpool' 🚫 Education 720 makes his first FE Week appearance as #TheUncivilServant - our new column feweek.co.uk/dfe-cant-affor…

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