What FE Week does

FE Week is a UK-based digital news publication and the only national newspaper dedicated to the further education, skills and apprenticeships sector in England. Operated by EducationScape Ltd from EdCity London, it covers policy, funding, leadership, teaching, accountability and reform across colleges, training providers, apprenticeship providers, Ofsted, and skills reform, serving senior college leaders, training providers, policymakers and employers engaged with apprenticeships and skills training. The publication reaches tens of thousands of readers weekly across its website, daily and weekly newsletters, social channels, and live events, and benefits from cross-promotion with sister title Schools Week under the EducationScape umbrella.

The product is a WordPress-based digital news platform with membership-gated content, email newsletter delivery, a dedicated recruitment jobs platform (Education Week Jobs), and a WorldSkills coverage hub. A recently launched AI-generated audio narration feature adds text-to-speech playback of member-only articles with speed controls. Revenue is generated through a tiered recurring subscription model (Supporter, Standard, Premium, Team, and Organization tiers ranging from £4.99/month to £5,435/year for up to 3,500-seat enterprise packages) supplemented by advertising, sponsored content and recruitment advertising. The editorial team is small (editor, deputy editor, commissioning and investigations editor, senior reporter and reporter), and the company is privately held with no disclosed external investment.

Name

FE Week

Legal name

EducationScape Ltd

Website

https://feweek.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FE Week is a UK digital news publication covering further education, skills and apprenticeships, serving college leaders, training providers, policymakers and employers through a membership subscription model supported by advertising and recruitment services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription/Membership Revenue: FE Week generates primary revenue through tiered membership subscriptions including supporter, standard membership, premium membership, and team/organizational packages. Pricing ranges from £4.99/month for supporters to £5,435 for large organization packages.
2. Advertising Revenue: Digital advertising including display ads, sponsored content, and recruitment advertising through the dedicated jobs platform (Education Week Jobs). The publication offers tailor-made advertising campaigns for the education sector.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

FE Week is a digital news publication providing independent journalism, analysis, and insight on the further education, skills, and apprenticeships sector in England. The core offering is editorial news content delivered through the feweek.co.uk website, weekly curated digital edition, and email newsletters, gated by tiered membership subscriptions ranging from individual supporters to large organizational licenses.

Product overview

FE Week is a news publication covering further education, skills, and apprenticeships. The company operates a tiered membership model with four subscription levels: Supporter (ad-free reading experience), Standard Membership (full article access plus weekly digital edition), Premium Membership (for sector leaders with exclusive events and briefings), and Organisation/Team packages for enterprise groups. The core offering is editorial news coverage across topics including FE policy, apprenticeships, colleges, training providers, Ofsted, and politics, delivered through the website, weekly digital edition, and newsletters. A specialist jobs board and sister publication Schools Week expand the reach under EducationScape. A recent addition is AI-generated audio narration for member articles.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• FE Week News Coverage
• FE Week Weekly Digital Edition
• FE Week Jobs Board
• WorldSkills Coverage Hub

Quantifiable outcome

• Tens of thousands of readers every week across digital, social and live events

Named customers4 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and supporting.

• WorldSkills UKcoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026FE Week is the Official Team UK Media Partner for WorldSkills Shanghai 2026. The publication hosts a dedicated WorldSkills hub providing coverage of Team UK's preparation and competition. This partnership positions FE Week as the primary media voice for UK skills competitions and provides exclusive content access.
• AQAsupportingGTM or Marketing Partner · 1 January 2026AQA is listed as a FE Week Reporting Partner for WorldSkills coverage. This reflects an ongoing relationship between the awarding organization and the publication.
• EducationScapecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEducationScape is the parent organization of FE Week and Schools Week. The organization is dedicated to supporting and connecting the education and skills sector through journalism, events and professional development. FE Week operates as part of this umbrella alongside its sister publication.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves1 record

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• TES: TES (Times Educational Supplement) is the UK's largest paid education trade publication, covering teaching, schools and further education with subscription and recruitment advertising. It is the most direct commercial comparable to FE Week in terms of subscription model and sector audience.
• SecEd: SecEd is a UK education trade title focused on secondary education news, policy and CPD. While weighted toward schools rather than FE, its digital-first subscription model, newsletter distribution and sector audience overlap make it a close operational comparable.
• Children & Young People Now: Children & Young People Now is a UK policy-led trade publication for the children, youth and skills workforce, with a digital subscription and membership model. It targets a similar decision-maker audience (sector leaders, policymakers, training providers) and competes for the same B2B advertising spend.
• The PIE News: The PIE News is a UK-anchored trade publication covering the education and training sector, including further education, skills and apprenticeships. It competes for the same sector readership and runs a comparable digital subscription and event-led model.
• FE News: FE News covers the UK further education and skills sector with news, opinion and sector intelligence aimed at FE leaders. Its audience, topic coverage and direct-to-consumer orientation overlap closely with FE Week.
• Schools Week: Sister publication under the EducationScape umbrella, covering UK schools education with the same membership, newsletter and jobs-board model. It is materially comparable in product, business model and target buyer, and competes for the same broader UK education advertising and subscription wallet.

Broad incumbents

• Education Week: Education Week is a large, established US-based K-12 and education-policy publication with subscription and advertising revenue. Although it operates in a different geography and at much greater scale, its digital subscription model and policy/investigative journalism orientation make it a useful scale comparable.
• The Guardian Education: The Guardian's education desk covers UK further education, skills and apprenticeships within a much broader mainstream newsroom. It competes for the same policymaker and FE-leader attention and operates a free, advertising-supported digital model at significantly greater scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/FEWeek

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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