Watching A4e

Sentencing has begun this week on the 10 A4e employees who were convicted of fraud last year.  And, at last, the mainstream media have decid...

Let's go back to an extraordinary week just over 3 years ago.  In January 2012 the Telegraph looked at A4e's published accounts for ...

The only news on the A4e sell-off came on Monday with a piece on the FE Week website speculating that Newcastle College Group could take ove...

Looking back on the story of A4e, I'm struck by the relationship over the years between its owner Emma Harrison and the media.  To say t...

One of the surprises of writing this blog has been the number of contacts I've made.  There was a steady trickle of journalists and rese...

Since this blog will, I assume, soon be done with I thought I would reprise some of the highlights of its 7 years. It started back in the s...

Whoever tweets on A4e's behalf was merrily going on about apprenticeships today, and that was the news on their website.  It's not s...