Every week in FE News

Who are we?

FE News is the largest online news site for the Further Education, Skills / Work Based Learning and Welfare to Work sector, we have been around for nearly 10 years (no mean feat for an online business). FE News was established in September 2003, our focus is covering news across the entire sector. FE News is a specialist news site for the sector, in every FE week we provide our support to help build the further education division. Our content is free to view, we are a 'green' news provider because we don’t produce a paper-based publication that uses up precious resources. Even our job advertising site www.FEcareers.co.uk is free to view the latest job vacancies (we have more than 1200 job vacancies live per day and more than 700,000 job seeker user sessions per month). Between FE News and FE Careers we have well over a million page views per month, every month.

We are lucky enough to have our head office based in the middle of a working Forestry Commission Woodland (we rent our offices from the Forestry Commission at the Cookworthy Forest Centre), it is an amazing environment to work in, we love taking a moment out to walk in the woods, spot some deer and get the creative juices flowing. The area is a working woodland (as most Forestry Commission woods are) and the trees are sometimes felled for a whole manner of uses. It is pretty alarming when you walk in a recently felled area of the forest, it really hits home why FE News must maintain an online presence.

Our ethos.

We work to a strong belief that all of our news should be fair and sector building. Our aim is to unite the sector to enable us to all work more effectively together to provide greater opportunities for learners. This is no mean task because the Further Education sector is so vast, College, Training Providers, Welfare to Work, Employability, Awarding Bodies, Funding Agencies, Apprenticeships, Prison Education, ESOL, Adult Learning / Education - the list can go on and on. Our aim is to provide an insight into the latest developments across the sector. We really appreciate the time shared and spared by our column writers - they are the policy makers and innovators of the sector and our audience enjoy weekly insights and pearls of wisdom from these specialists, so they can plan how to best deliver future learning for students.

What type of content do we publish every week?

We have a range of news styles for you to enjoy. This ranges from column writers who are subject matter specialists across the sector, video interviews with speakers from conferences and events - we have published more than 250 video interviews - news analysis of emerging trends across Further Education, Skills and Welfare to Work.

Every FE week we feature specialist column writers who are experts in their respective areas of Further Education. The columnists are experts in their field and set the policy for the sector. Every week FE News column writers provide an insight into the latest policy developments so you can keep your finger right on the pulse.

Who are our columnists?

Our column writers include: John Hayes (FE and Skills Minister) , Geoff Russell (Skills Funding Agency CEO), Toni Fazaeli (IfL CEO), Lynne Sedgmore (157 Group of Colleges), Rob Wye (LSIS CEO), Simon Waugh (National Apprenticeship Service CEO) and Seb Schmoller (ALT CEO) to name but a few.

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Our news site regularly has between 220,000 – 250,000 user sessions, reading our news stories and video interviews. FE News and our job site FE Careers work in partnership with a broad range of associations across the entire sector: the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AeLP), the Association of Colleges (AoC), the 157 Group of Colleges, Institute for Learning (IfL) and the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB).

We also provides access to event information, press releases from across the sector and the largest pool of job vacancies across the Further Education, Skills and Welfare to Work sectors via our job advertising site www.FEcareers.co.uk (this is largest online job advertising site with over 700,000 job seeker user sessions per month and over 1200 live vacancies advertised every day. FE Careers are also regularly finalists for multiple award categories at the Online Recruitment Awards).

Join the FE Community and upload your press releases and event information.

Do you want to upload press releases or event information for our readers on FE News? We accept these via our communications network www.FEcommunity.co.uk (and all press releases and event information is free to upload on FE Community). We have more than 1200 FE communications and marketing specialists who have already joined and enjoy the services. Click here for a video tutorial on how to upload a press release on FE News and click here for a video tutorial on how to upload event information on FE Community. You can even embed videos for free on what your College, Training Provider, Awarding Body or Charity is up to in Further Education and Skills.

Receive news every week through our Soundbite!

We can email you an FE weekly round up of news from across the sector. Our further education "Soundbite" is designed to be a 30 second snap shot of the week's FE News. Click here to register for a free FE weekly News roundup.

We do not accept funding from any Government funding body.

We remain totally independent. Advertising is the life blood of FE News and FE Careers, without it we could not exist. We want to thank our advertisers for their continued support. To advertise with us click here or to advertise your job vacancies on our career site click here for more information about where you can advertise a single job vacancy for as little as £59 + vat per month (another of our policies for offering the best value to Government funded organisations).