The politics of place can bring specialist and mainstream provision together if inclusion is defined by belonging and ...

Lucy Powell has been appointed education secretary by prime minister Andy Burnham, returning to government less than a year after she was sacked by Keir Starmer. The Labour deputy leader succeeds ...

Pat McFadden has kept his job as work and pensions secretary in new prime minister Andy Burnham’s government. McFadden, MP for Wolverhampton South East, has held the role since September 2025, when he ...

Ofsted has written off the entire £3.9 million it spent on software meant to replace its scheduling and case management ...

BIIAB has been stripped of powers to award security industry qualifications in an “unprecedented action” that puts an ...

Ofqual and Ofsted are advertising for AI and security specialists to help to 'navigate this changing landscape' ...

The vision that Andy Burnham has laid out of the future is refreshing, particularly his assertion that education is a key to ...

Staff morale at Skills England was among the worst in the civil service after the agency was moved to a new department, its ...

The FE white paper included more than 30 proposals but the majority repeat or build on current reforms rather than announcing radically new ones. In this handy explainer FE Week explores the most ...

Refreshed college financial handbook stipulates chief financial officer applicants must be professionally recognised ...

The axing of level 7 apprenticeships from levy funding will be “pretty widespread”, the skills minister warned as she suggested a blanket ban on public subsidy for the programmes is coming. Jacqui ...

Then the post-16 pathways implementation plan, published last month, said the forthcoming enrichment framework would be non-statutory guidance for schools and colleges supported by “case studies and ...