Blogs | Talking FE

Aug 73 min read

Ofsted's First Safeguarding Failure Raises the Stakes for Colleges

Jul 313 min read

Technical Education From 14 Has a College-Shaped Gap

Jul 243 min read

MPs Want the Apprenticeship Tinkering to Stop

Jul 173 min read

Adult FE Is Down 8.8%. The System Is Still Arguing About Targets.

Jul 103 min read

College HE Just Got a Lighter OfS Rulebook

Jul 33 min read

The Youth Guarantee Starts With Finding the Missing Learners

Jun 263 min read

Parent Data Requests Are Getting Messier. Colleges Need Clear Lines.

Jun 193 min read

The Week College Funding Became a Staff Pay Problem

May 153 min read

Parliament Just Promised SEND Reform. Colleges Are Reading the Small Print.

May 13 min read

The NI Grant Is Coming. So Is the Pay Claim. Colleges Are Caught Between Both

Apr 242 min read

Ninety Per Cent of the Work, Thirty Per Cent of the Money: The Apprenticeship Units Launch

Apr 173 min read

Colleges Recruited the Students, but the DfE Didn't Send the Money.

Apr 102 min read

The VAT Case Every College Finance Team Should Be Watching

Apr 22 min read

April's Here, And So Are the Biggest Shake-Ups to Hit FE in Years

Mar 203 min read

Colleges Are Carrying More Than They're Being Paid For

Mar 133 min read

More Money, Same Squeeze: What the 16–19 Funding Numbers Actually Mean for Colleges

Feb 273 min read

Progress back on the scorecard: what this week’s DfE moves mean for colleges

Feb 203 min read

Growing 16–18 numbers, shrinking options? Rethinking space and staffing after this week’s DfE update

Feb 132 min read

Full Classrooms, Leaking Roofs – and a New DfE Push for Live Teacher Data.

Feb 63 min read