Further education
Specific advice for members about pay and conditions in Further Education (FE) Colleges and information about our campaigns in the Post-16 sector.
Advice
Protection of children and vulnerable adults in FE Colleges
Advice on what NEU reps should expect colleges to have in place to protect children and vulnerable adults.
Lesson observation in FE Colleges
This guidance outlines NEU best practice models for both the conduct of lesson observations and the Teaching and Learning Observation System (TLOS) framework within which they are conducted.
Redundancy in the FE sector (for reps)
Redundancy has unfortunately become a fact of life for education staff in recent years. This guidance is for workplace reps about redundancy and the consultation process that NEU’s FE members whose posts are at risk should expect.
Restructuring in FE Colleges
When colleges are going through restructuring members understandably look to their union for support and advice. This guidance is intended to assist NEU college reps in dealing with the issue and ensuring that restructures are carried out fairly and transparently.
Deregulation of FE teaching
NEU believes deregulation strikes at the heart of teaching professionalism in FE. It will do nothing to boost low morale and could herald further attacks on pay and conditions alongside further rises in duties and workload.
Online stress survey guidance for reps in sixth form and FE colleges
In response to requests for assistance with undertaking stress surveys, a system has been developed which enables the NEU to provide an online staff stress survey as a resource for local officers, reps and safety reps.
NEU Recognition & Recruitment in the Post-16 Sector in England & Wales
This advice is intended to assist in discussions in relation to recognition and recruitment in FE colleges and sixth form colleges where there are National Education Union (NEU) members.
Employment rights in the further education sector
Details of your statutory rights as an employee in the Further education sector. In some cases your contract will provide you with better terms and conditions and, if this is the case, those better terms and conditions will apply.
Press release
Association of Colleges report on college staffing crisis
This report exposes the lack of Government support and commitment to colleges.
Unions Slam College Employers over 1% Pay Offer
College staff are key in ensuring future generations have the skills they need for their own careers and the greater economic good, and shouldn’t be on poverty pay.
Don't scrap BTEC
Education bodies write to Gavin Williamson urging him not to scrap BTEC qualifications
Post-16 Sector
If the Government is to achieve its agenda of levelling up and the promise of better jobs, it must restore funding and pay in the sector.
Joint unions express outrage at pay offer
Trade unions representing staff in English further education colleges have today (Thursday) slammed the decision by the Association of Colleges (AoC) to offer a 1% pay increase and demanded to know what additional Government funding had been spent on.
Coronavirus: Gavin Williamson's speech on FE
Ambitious proposals to regenerate the further education sector are welcome. The devil of course will be in the detail and we will need to see what is in the White Paper in September.
Unions set out five tests Government and colleges must meet
Trade unions set out five tests Government and colleges must meet before staff and students can return.
Further Education funding
The system is broken. Colleges are financially struggling, with staff numbers decimated. We need money for staff: parity with schools would require a £7000 pay catch-up for FE college teachers.
Sixth form and college funding
Kevin Courtney, joint general secretary of the National Education Union has commented on 16-19 Education Funding: Trends and Implications, a report published today by the Education Policy Institute (EPI).