London & South East Education Group regularly appears in the media, with colleagues from all the organisation contributing to various articles, comment pieces, and news stories.
September 2025
July 2025
June 2025
18 June: How trusts can work towards net zero despite recent cuts | Schools Week | Click here
16 June: Volunteers' Week - How we're bucking the trend and recruit great governors | Schools Week | Click here
6 June: Volunteers' Week - Firms urged to back working-class talent as £19 billion growth lost annually | The Sun | Click here
6 June - Volunteers' Week - It’s the good, the bat and the snugly this Volunteers’ Week | FE Week | Click here
1 June: LSIF is reshaping FE, turning competition to collaboration | FE Week | Click here
May 2025
25 May: South London's exceptional learners and teachers celebrated | FE News | Click here
13 May: Teeing off for a brighter future | LASER | Click here
8 May: Why every primary school child should have access to outdoor learning | CYP Now | Click here
April 2025
29 April: Inclusion must extend beyond FE students to staff | FE Week | Click here
11 April: From regular training to buddy systems - top tips to help autistic people into work | The Sun | Click here
9 April: This is what greater collaboration between further and higher education in England should look like | Wonk HE | Click here
1 April: Rewarding volunteering: Good for me Good for FE and NCFE pilot microcredentials | FE News | Click here
March 2025
4 March: London South East Colleges recognised as exempary employer for third year running | FE News | Click here
5 March: Collaboration was ouy way of solving a local SEND crisis | FE Week | Click here
6 March: Policy must better promote local SEND collaborations | Schools Week | Click here
19 March: The Power of Teaching and Learning in FE | FE News | Click here
February 2025
3 February: Nido Volans Lambeth Opening | FE News | Click here
12 February: Children and Young People Now Conference | CYP Now | Click here
January 2025
31 January: AI and Governance | FE Week | Click here
31 January: KS5 - focus on reforms to make that key stage more inclusive | Schools Week | Click here
November 2024
12 November: Jacqui Smith has spelled out a vision for FE we can all back | FE Week | Click here
8 November: An obituary for Claudette Douglas | FE Week | Click here
4 November: Transforming lives via Civic Leadership | FE News | Click here
October 2024
14 October: Creating a more collaborative tertiary landscape | Times Higher Education | Click here
3 October: London South East Colleges wins Social Value award | FE News | Click here
2 October: VAT exemption for Colleges | Mail Online | Click here
September 2024
30 September: The Benefits of a try before you buy approach to joining a trust| Schools wek | - Click here
30 September: How to launch a staff friendly volunteering strategy | FE Week | Click here
27 September: Trust Awards | Orpington 1st | Click here
20 September: Fear and sanctions have failed to get Britain working. Why not try tea and empathy? | The Guardian | Click here
18 September: Outrageous FE teacher pay gap causing huge vacancies in key priority skills | FE Week | Click here
13 September: Embedding EDI at London South East Colleges: creating opportunity through belonging | FE News | Click here
10 September: Children and Young People Now | Cynow.co.uk | Click here
June 2024
17 June: Sector-Based Work Academy Programme (SWAP): a new approach to addressing the green skills gap | FE News | Click here
17 June: The Staffroom. The election is a chance to empower learners | feweek.co.uk | Click here
9 June: Students volunteer to support their local communities | feweek.co.uk | Click here
May 2024
26 May: Microcreds can turn volunteering into recognised learning | feweek.co.uk | Click here
21 May: Primary school eco-champions win global citizenship award | londonnewsonline.co.uk | Click here
7 May: SEND students show off their business skills in Dragons’ Den event | londonnewsonline.co.uk | Click here
1 May 2024: How to ensure trustees make informed decisions on growth | schoolsweek.co.uk | Click here
April 2024
23 April: Why we’re developing micro-credentials – and you should too | feweek.co.uk | Click here
2 April: The Staffroom. Why faith is a cornerstone of effective ED | feweek.co.uk | Click here
March 2024
29 March: Why outstanding schools should join a MAT (and how to find the right one) | schoolsweek.co.uk | Click here
February 2024
26 February: Empowering through education: the evolution of NCFE and FE institutions | wired-gov.net | Click here
5 February: Resits: Colleges could do much more with some flexibility | FE Week.co.uk | Click Here
January 2024
24 January: Anxiety, poverty and undiagnosed special needs fuel spiralling levels of school truancy | The Standard | Click here
21 January: Balanced MAT expansion is about striking the right chords | schoolsweek.co.uk | Click here
20 January: Anxiety, poverty and undiagnosed special needs fuel spiralling levels of school truancy | The Standard | Click here
2 January: Bexley school children sing in King's Christmas message | This is Local London | Click here
December 2023
25 December: Bexley Music Primary Choir performs on the King's Christmas Message 2023 - The King's Christmas Broadcast 2023 | BBC | Click here
8 December: Schools Week - Mental Health and Attendance | Click here
7 December: Association of Colleges (aoc.co.uk) | Why we are re-imagining social action | Click here
5 December: Volunteering hero at The Sheffield College recognised in new national awards | FE News | Click here
November 2023
17 November: Londonhigher.ac.uk | How London’s universities and colleges are working together to support students, employers and local communities Click here
14 November: FE News | Minister visits London South East Colleges ahead of skills funding announcement | Click here
October 2023
31 October: Inaugural Good for Me Good for FE award winners revealed | FE Week | Click here
19 October: Children and Young People Now Magazine |To tackle attendance, we must redefine it | Click here
19 October: David Evennett MP visit to LSEC | FE News | Click here
12 October: Celebrating the success of outstanding pupils | Orpington 1st | Click here
September 2023
29 September: South London Press | Green skills | Click here
29 September: Joining a MAT helped us rebuild trust and re-imagine success | Schools Week |Click here
28 September: FE Week - Shelagh Legrave | Why it’s time to recognise the work of colleges as social action leaders | Click here
9 September: FE Week - Good for Me Good for FE awards launch | Click here
1 September: FE News - Sam Parrett - 20th anniversary | Click here