Motion
- Motion title
- Reclaiming education in FE - end the corporate model!
- Session
- 2025-2026
- Meeting link
- FE Conference
- Meeting date
- 28 May 2026
- Status
- Carried
- Motion
- F22
- Motion text
FESC is asked to consider the increasing corporatisation of further education colleges, including the widespread adoption of CEO-style leadership structures with executive-level salaries and corporate governance models. Many members report that this shift has distanced decision-making from staff and learners, reduced meaningful democratic accountability, and prioritised financial and branding concerns over educational values.
FESC is further asked to recognise that colleges are public educational institutions, not private corporations, and that leadership models should reflect educational purpose rather than corporate hierarchy.
FESC is therefore asked to support lobbying government to review and reform college governance frameworks, with a view to moving away from CEO-style structures and restoring principal-led, education-focused models that include genuine staff voice and accountability.
- Proposing body
- Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Further education committee (FEC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2026/F/05-28/087/F22