Ofsted have rated a third general FE college as ‘outstanding’ in the space of six months. The sector had faced a fourteen month wait for Ofsted to rate a general FE college with an ‘outstanding’ from their overall report, but this changed in June when two were published in the space of two weeks. The [...]

Nearly £50 million has been set aside by the government to improve its controversial GCSE maths resits policy. The chancellor, Phillip Hammond, presented his autumn budget in parliament announcing various new forms of funding for Further Education. Out of the investment, £8.5 million will be set aside to test “innovative approaches” to improving resits. [...]