Further education area reviews: policy and reports
Policy documents about the area reviews of sixth-form and further education colleges.
To support these policy documents, we’ve also published guidance about the area reviews and how to carry out their recommendations.
About the area reviews
The Further Education Commissioner also publishes updates on the area reviews for colleges.
- Area review: end of programme report
- Research and analysis
- Post-16 education and training institutions: list of area reviews
- Policy paper
- Post-16 education and training institutions review
- Policy paper
Area review reports
- Birmingham and Solihull further education area review report
- Decision
- Black Country further education area review report
- Decision
- Central London further education area review report
- Decision
- Cheshire and Warrington further education area review report
- Decision
- Coventry and Warwickshire further education area review report
- Decision
- Cumbria further education area review report
- Decision
- Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire FE area review
- Decision
- Dorset further education area review
- Decision
- East and south-east London further education area review report
- Decision
- Gloucestershire, Swindon and Wiltshire FE area review
- Decision
- Greater Cambridgeshire and Greater Peterborough FE area review
- Decision
- Greater Essex further education area review
- Decision
- Greater Lincolnshire further education area review
- Decision
- Greater Manchester further education area review report
- Decision
- Hertfordshire further education area review report
- Decision
- Kent and Medway further education area review report
- Decision
- Lancashire further education area review report
- Decision
- Leicester and Leicestershire further education area review report
- Decision
- Liverpool city region further education area review report
- Decision
- The Marches and Worcestershire further education area review report
- Decision
- Norfolk and Suffolk further education area review report
- Decision
- North and mid-Hampshire further education area review report
- Decision
- North east England further education area review report
- Decision
- York, North Yorkshire, East Riding and Hull FE area review report
- Decision
- Sheffield city region further education area review report
- Decision
- Solent further education area review report
- Decision
- Somerset, Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly FE area review report
- Decision
- South east Midlands further education area review report
- Decision
- South London further education area review report
- Decision
- Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire further education area review report
- Decision
- Surrey further education area review report
- Decision
- Sussex further education area review report
- Decision
- Tees Valley further education area review report
- Decision
- Thames Valley further education area review report
- Decision
- West of England further education area review report
- Decision
- West London further education area review report
- Decision
- West Yorkshire further education area review report
- Decision
- Further education area reviews: example data packs
- Transparency data
Published 8 September 2015
Last updated 9 September 2019 + show all updates
- Added “Area review: end of programme report”.
- Added 15 new area review report pages.
- Added 4 area review reports for London.
- Added area review reports for North and mid-Hampshire, Liverpool city region, Cumbria, Coventry and Warwickshire and the Black Country.
- Added area review reports for waves 1 and 2.
- Added ‘Post-16 education and training institutions: transition grants for area reviews’.
- Added ‘Area reviews and reshaping the college sector: FE Commissioner letter (March)’.
- Added a link to ’16 to 19 academies: application process for sixth-form colleges’.
- Added FE Commissioner’s letters to the collection.
- First published.
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