📢 The University and College Union could vote to stop campaigning for annual pay rises and prioritise national bargaining instead https://feweek.co.uk/switch-focus-to-national-solutions-on-pay-ucu-told/

📉 Plunging achievement rates are being welcomed at a Lancashire college at the centre of a data manipulation scandal https://feweek.co.uk/worsening-student-data-is-positive-sign-for-burnley/

🔗 An historic adult learning college in east London is expected to merge with nearby Newham College to rescue it from financial turmoil https://feweek.co.uk/mary-ward-steps-closer-to-newham-college-merger/

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🏗️ A north east college has been placed in financial intervention for 'weaknesses' in its oversight of a £96 million campus building project feweek.co.uk/tyne-coast-f...

📉 Boston College has been placed into government intervention after suffering serious cashflow issues and breaching an unexplained legal requirement https://feweek.co.uk/financial-mess-forces-boston-college-into-intervention/

🙅‍♀️ Bridget Phillipson has defended the use of reality TV star Gemma Collins in a promotional video for vocational courses after it attracted backlash online https://feweek.co.uk/gemma-collins-hate-is-snobbery-says-phillipson/

Leadership and training at apprenticeship giant Multiverse ‘needs attention’, Ofsted has said https://feweek.co.uk/ofsted-warns-multiverse-needs-attention-after-starts-stop-on-weakest-apprenticeships/

💻 Students can now complete T Level industry placements entirely from home, the government has decided in the latest attempt to rescue the flagship qualifications beset by weak take-up https://feweek.co.uk/t-levels-go-fully-remote-as-ministers-scrap-work-placement-limits/

📢Tune into live updates as the government's social mobility adviser is questioned by DWP select committee https://feweek.co.uk/milburn-quizzed-by-mps-on-neets/

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Ministers are set to scrap the single-license model for T Levels and will not adopt the contentious awarding body approach for new vocational qualifications https://feweek.co.uk/single-awarding-body-license-model-axed-by-dfe/

🔄 A major CPD programme for further education teachers will be taken over by the Association of Colleges this summer after the Education and Training Foundation lost the government contract it has held for more than six years https://ow.ly/VGKh50Z1Kzt

Large national training provider Learning Curve Group has appointed a new CEO five months after its high-profile boss suddenly stepped down https://feweek.co.uk/learning-curve-group-appoints-new-ceo/

🆕 Ofsted is considering replacing the electronic evidence-gathering (EEG) system used by inspectors following years of issues https://feweek.co.uk/ofsted-considers-replacing-glitchy-evidence-gathering-system/

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Basingstoke College of Technology has announced long-serving staff member Lorraine Heath as its permanent principal https://feweek.co.uk/lorraine-heath-made-permanent-principal-of-basingstoke-college/

💃 This week's movers features an extravagant claim to fame - on FE leader got 'ready to rumble' with Ant and Dec at a festival in the 1990s https://feweek.co.uk/movers-shakers-edition-533/

🎓 The first colleges and universities to deliver short higher education courses through the lifelong learning entitlement have been revealed https://feweek.co.uk/over-100-providers-approved-for-lle-modular-courses/

😰 Fears are growing for apprenticeship ‘hubs’ after ministers slashed a key post-Brexit funding stream, triggering warnings of closures and lost brokerage support for small businesses and young people feweek.co.uk/prosperity-f...

⏸️ A mayoral authority has indefinitely paused a £21 million adult education procurement after a training provider hit it with legal action feweek.co.uk/court-action...

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🚀 College teachers received pay rises averaging 4.1 per cent last year – far higher than the Association of Colleges’ pay recommendation https://feweek.co.uk/colleges-delivered-aoc-recommendation-busting-pay-deals/

🔎 BREAKING 🔎 Ofsted will not inspect apprenticeship unit provision until April 2027 at the earliest https://feweek.co.uk/ofsted-will-not-inspect-apprenticeship-units-until-at-least-april-2027/

‘Education for all’: SEND reform bill confirmed in King’s Speech 2026 https://feweek.co.uk/education-for-all-send-reform-bill-confirmed-in-kings-speech-2026/

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🪧 Hundreds of staff at Capital City College are striking for four days during this week’s exam period over 'workload concerns'. feweek.co.uk/capital-city...

🧑‍⚖️ Ministers are considering harder accountability measures for schools delivering 'shameful' transitions for SEND students moving into college https://feweek.co.uk/send-reforms-will-target-shameful-transitions-into-fe/

🤝 WorldSkills UK boss Ben Blackledge has been chosen as the first permanent CEO of the City & Guilds Foundation since the controversial sale of its awarding business last year https://feweek.co.uk/worldskills-uk-boss-to-lead-city-guilds-foundation

🧩 Local government should be given powers to tackle 'cold spots' of specialist FE subjects caused by fragmented and inefficient education systems, according to a report. feweek.co.uk/local-govern...

🆕 75 roles at risk at City & Guilds as new owner confirms restructure https://feweek.co.uk/75-roles-at-risk-at-city-guilds-as-new-owner-confirms-restructure/

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📢 Keir Starmer claims the government will "go much further" on apprenticeships, SEND and technical excellence colleges as he responds to last week's election losses https://feweek.co.uk/starmer-to-go-much-further-on-apprenticeships-and-send-after-election-losses/

🤌 This week's movers features a former (clumsy) chef and former FA Cup goalscorer https://feweek.co.uk/movers-shakers-edition-532/

Staff at England’s largest exam board have voted to strike this summer over pay, but AQA has said results will not be delayed https://feweek.co.uk/staff-to-strike-at-uks-biggest-exam-board/

🧱 Two million pounds has been pumped into the test phase of a scheme to recruit construction workers as part-time FE college teachers https://feweek.co.uk/scheme-digs-foundations-to-woo-builders-into-fe/

📉 National adult skills contracts will shrink from September as a portion of funding is handed to 20 local authorities for the second year of a pre-devolution trial https://feweek.co.uk/itps-squeezed-out-by-pre-devolution-pilot/

🤥 Functional skills exams suffered more malpractice penalties than any other vocational or technical qualification after cases of cheating doubled in three years, figures reveal https://feweek.co.uk/cheating-now-worst-in-functional-skills-exams/

✈️ College leaders have warned they are too stretched to deliver on the government’s £40 billion international education ambition https://feweek.co.uk/no-time-or-money-for-overseas-activity-say-colleges/

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🤝Sixth form college teachers have secured a contractual right to ‘planning time’ following union negotiations https://feweek.co.uk/unions-win-planning-time-for-sixth-form-teachers/

A teenager who threatened to blow up his college with homemade explosives and kill fellow students pleaded guilty to charges this week https://feweek.co.uk/bedroom-gunpowder-teen-admits-threats-to-bomb-college/

💻 A government platform that advertises school teaching roles is set to feature FE college vacancies for the first time later this year https://feweek.co.uk/date-set-for-expanding-free-teacher-vacancy-site-to-fe/

📢 Teaching staff at Windsor Forest Colleges Group will walk out tomorrow for the third time this year over a 'derisory' low pay rise offer of 1.7 per cent https://feweek.co.uk/windsor-college-staff-storm-out-over-pay-again/

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💰 A chunky government bonus scheme appears to have kept early career teachers in post but is fuelling resentment among experienced staff https://feweek.co.uk/new-bonus-scheme-fuels-resentment-among-fe-teachers/

🏥 Seriously ill 16 to 18-year-olds could gain a legal right to hospital education support under new proposals. But leaders warn funding gaps, council deficits and inflexible college admissions could still leave learners facing a post-16 cliff edge. https://ow.ly/YXAt50YT5xz

🔍 Forensic accountants are investigating the apparent cut-price sale of a group of stock market-floated training firms to two shareholders https://feweek.co.uk/insolvency-experts-probe-acacia-deal/

✅ Training providers where barely half of apprentices successfully complete training are among the ‘strong’ organisations picked to deliver the government’s flagship apprenticeship units https://feweek.co.uk/signs-of-weakness-among-units-strong-providers/