South Lanarkshire College: Auditor General hints at need for police probe
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Fraud Scotland Financial irregularities
  • May 13, 2022
South Lanarkshire College: Nicola Sturgeon open to probe
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Scotland College Misconduct Fraud Governance
  • Apr 22, 2022
Owner of defunct awarding body demands Ofqual repays £115,000 fine
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Awarding bodies Ofqual Legal action Fraud
  • Jan 21, 2022
Pinstriped, panama-hat wearing ‘English’ academic was FBI fugitive
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Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Sexual assault Fraud Scotland USA Fugitive
  • Jan 21, 2022
Maths teacher made OBE hits out at ‘pointless’ 10-year fraud battle
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Fundraising Fraud
  • Jan 16, 2022
Owner of defunct provider involved in £20m subcontracting scandal declares bankruptcy
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Training providers Subcontracting Fraud
  • Jan 14, 2022
Fake sugar daddies are 'conning students out of thousands of pounds' by posing as rich older men
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Fraud Online safety
  • Nov 18, 2021
Students lose thousands to sugar daddy con artists
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Fraud Online safety
  • Nov 18, 2021
Accountant's £250k fraud caused Devon school's closure
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Fraud School closures School finances Mismanagement
  • Nov 16, 2021
Martin Lewis warns kids are at risk of fraud and debt because of the curriculum
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Fraud Financial education
  • Oct 29, 2021
One month sees 5,000 university students report phone job scams to HMRC
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Fraud Wales
  • Oct 18, 2021
Fraud Facts for Freshers
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Fraud
  • Sep 9, 2021
College 'learned lessons' from £500K embezzlement case
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College finances Fraud Financial misconduct Scotland
  • Aug 23, 2021
Academy trust 'paid fraudsters nearly £400K'
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Academy trusts Fraud Coronavirus Financial management
  • Feb 8, 2021
Gateshead College accounts reveal the story behind shock deficit
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Financial irregularities Fraud
  • Jan 4, 2021
Debt and fraud information sharing business case: ESFA/HMRC apprenticeship levy fund fraud pilot
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Apprenticeship levy Fraud
  • Oct 30, 2020
Fraud police drop Bright Tribe investigation
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Academy trusts Fraud Investigations
  • Sep 25, 2020
Fraud Facts for Freshers
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Student loans Loan repayment Fraud
  • Sep 8, 2020
Debt and fraud data sharing business case: ESFA/HMRC pilot
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Fraud Debt
  • Aug 14, 2020
Graduates who post 'degree selfies' risk fuelling fraud, university watchdog warns
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Graduation Fraud
  • Aug 4, 2020
Students who missed out on graduation ceremonies told not to post degree selfies
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Graduation Fraud
  • Aug 4, 2020
Warn students that degree certificate selfies could lead to increase in fraud
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Graduation Fraud
  • Aug 4, 2020
ESFA: More fraud investigations in FE
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ESFA Fraud Apprenticeship funding
  • Jul 21, 2020
Prospects launches degree fraud awareness campaign
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Fraud Qualifications
  • Jul 3, 2020
Coronavirus: ESFA urges caution as fraud cases soar
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Coronavirus ESFA Fraud
  • Apr 1, 2020
Coronavirus scam warning: New scam targeting children’s school meals
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Coronavirus School closures Free school meals Fraud
  • Mar 26, 2020
Free school meal scam: Vile crooks take advantage of worried parents with coronavirus scam
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Coronavirus School closures Free school meals Fraud
  • Mar 25, 2020
Coronavirus: School leaders ‘horrified’ after parents of free school meal children targeted by fraudsters
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Coronavirus School closures Free school meals Fraud
  • Mar 24, 2020
Salesman lied so much on his CV he ruined thousands of children’s education
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Leadership Fraud
  • Feb 21, 2020
John Lewis salesman lied his way to £1m job running schools
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Leadership Fraud
  • Feb 21, 2020
Serious Fraud Office inquiry
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Fraud School closures School performance
  • Jan 24, 2020
NEU joins calls for probe into collapsed free schools at centre of financial scandals
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Free schools Finances Fraud Maladministration
  • Jan 24, 2020
Free school fire escape door at centre of tax evasion allegations
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Free schools Fraud Financial misconduct
  • Jan 17, 2020
Police make arrest in college embezzlement probe
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Scotland Colleges Fraud Financial misconduct
  • Jan 16, 2020
Thousands of students sent fake HMRC letters promising loan refunds
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Fraud Student loans Student debt
  • Jan 14, 2020
Police probe alleged fraud at Scottish Qualifications Authority
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Scotland Exam boards Fraud SQA
  • Dec 8, 2019
Investigators probe dozens of gagging orders as former Hull College staff left ‘devastated’
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Finances Mismanagement Fraud
  • Dec 5, 2019
Fraud police start formal Bright Tribe probe
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Academies MATs Police Fraud
  • Nov 28, 2019
Bright Tribe investigation referred to fraud police
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Legal action Academies MATs Mismanagement Finances Fraud
  • Oct 8, 2019
Most students and recent graduates have been scammed at university
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Fraud
  • Sep 30, 2019
Jobs lost as training provider closes amid fraud allegations
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Training providers Closures Fraud
  • Sep 13, 2019
Conman sentenced for selling forged exam certificates
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Fraud
  • Aug 21, 2019
College sacks employee in embezzlement case
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Colleges Scotland Staff dismissal Fraud Embezzlement
  • Jul 19, 2019
College fraud probe finds 'significant' rule breaches
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Colleges Fraud
  • Jul 18, 2019
Former principal of Bournville College was referred to police for operating fraudulently
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Colleges Fraud Principal
  • Jul 18, 2019
Fraudsters pose as college principal in bid to con recipients out of money
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Fraud ESFA
  • Jun 28, 2019
Police launch investigation into embezzlement claims at Scottish college
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Scotland Fraud Police Colleges Finances
  • Jun 12, 2019
'Sex dungeon' head banned from teaching for life
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Headteachers Teacher ban Finances Fraud Misconduct
  • May 31, 2019
Scotland: Ex-charity boss Jacqueline McKay swindled university out of £16,000
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Aberdeen University Student unions Fraud
  • Apr 30, 2019
DfE policy adviser leaves trust amid finance investigation
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Academies MATs Finances Fraud
  • Apr 24, 2019
Nursery fraud warning after parent's bank account hacked
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Nurseries Fraud
  • Apr 15, 2019
Vice-principal convicted of defrauding school escapes ban
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Leaders Fraud
  • Apr 12, 2019
Vice-principal convicted of expenses fraud won't be banned from teaching
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Leaders Fraud
  • Apr 12, 2019
Training provider director jailed for 8 months for fraud
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Leaders Training providers Fraud
  • Apr 3, 2019
Teacher banned over bogus qualification claims
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Teacher ban Fraud
  • Mar 28, 2019
Police launch ‘formal criminal investigation’ into 3aaa after DfE fraud allegations
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DfE Fraud 3aaa
  • Mar 15, 2019
Spending spree head banned for life
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Headteacher Teacher ban Finances Fraud
  • Mar 12, 2019
The unanswered questions about a free school scandal
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Free schools Fraud
  • Mar 8, 2019
DfE failed to ensure police investigated free school fraud
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Free schools Fraud
  • Mar 8, 2019
Government warns of ‘significant increase’ in cyber crime against academy trusts
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Academies MATs Cyber crime Fraud
  • Mar 6, 2019
Norwich pair ran fake distance learning courses
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Distance learning Fraud
  • Feb 25, 2019
Disgraced superhead cannot appeal over £1.4m in unlawful bonuses
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Headteachers Pay Finances Legal action Fraud
  • Feb 18, 2019
Eagerness to work ‘unusual hours’ is potential sign of fraud, says DfE guidance
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Fraud Learning providers
  • Feb 12, 2019
DfE publishes indicators for potential fraud in education providers
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Training providers Fraud
  • Feb 12, 2019
Ofqual fine and legal costs land an awarding organisation with a six-figure bill
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Awarding organisations Ofqual Qualifications Fraud Legal action
  • Jan 18, 2019
How ESFA handles allegations of suspected fraud or financial irregularity
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ESFA Fraud
  • Jan 7, 2019
Teacher who stole pupils' school theatre trip money banned from classroom
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Banned Fraud
  • Jan 3, 2019
Banned: Teacher who stole school theatre trip money
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Banned Fraud
  • Jan 2, 2019
Banned: Head who used school funds to pay for wife's overseas travel
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Banned Fraud
  • Dec 31, 2018
3aaa police enquiries continue as DfE ‘has not yet completed its work’
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Legal action Apprenticeship training providers Fraud
  • Dec 14, 2018
Revealed: How two businessmen left a trail of insolvency and debt in the apprenticeship market
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Apprenticeship training Funding Fraud
  • Dec 14, 2018
Apprenticeship fraud probe provider operating under new name
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CITB Apprenticeship training providers Fraud
  • Nov 28, 2018
Anglia Ruskin university put thief in charge of millions
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Research funding Fraud
  • Oct 20, 2018
Bullying, fraud and the need for a “just” culture
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Bullying Fraud Social justice
  • Oct 18, 2018
Police investigate fraud allegations at 3aaa apprenticeships
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3aaa Fraud
  • Oct 12, 2018
David Malengela: Police hunt teacher banned for claiming extra cash
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Fraud Misconduct Banned
  • Oct 12, 2018
Teacher conned parents out of money for trips
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Teachers Fraud School trips
  • Oct 12, 2018
DfE refers 3aaa investigation to the police
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AAA Fraud
  • Oct 11, 2018
Teacher banned for claiming extra cash for school trips
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Fraud Banned
  • Oct 11, 2018
Minister open to raising apprenticeship transfer funding but concerned about fraud
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Anne Milton Apprenticeship levy Fraud
  • Oct 2, 2018
Academy trusts: More than just one bad apple?
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Academies MATs Fraud Funding Finances
  • Sep 14, 2018
Banned: Cocaine addict who defrauded his school
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Banned Misconduct Fraud
  • Sep 11, 2018
Bright Tribe academy trust accused of fiddling taxpayer
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Academies MATs Finances Fraud
  • Sep 10, 2018
Former Montessori charity boss jailed for stealing £180,000
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Montessori Fraud
  • Jul 16, 2018
Ex-Montessori charity boss jailed for fraud
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Montessori Fraud
  • Jul 16, 2018
Headmistress of leading girls' school sacked as police open a fraud probe into her expenses claims
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Leaders Fraud Headteachers
  • Jun 18, 2018
Students are warned not to post selfies with their graduation certificates visible to stop fraudsters using them to make fake diplomas
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Graduates Fraud Social media
  • Jun 11, 2018
Graduation selfies could lead to degree fraud, say experts
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Graduates Fraud Social media
  • Jun 11, 2018
Graduation selfies leading to surge in first‑class fake degrees
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Graduates Fraud Social media
  • Jun 11, 2018
'Sharenting' puts young at risk of online fraud
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Social media Fraud Online safety Cyber security
  • May 21, 2018
That Facebook picture of your child’s birthday is a gift for online fraudsters
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Social media Fraud Online safety
  • May 21, 2018
Disgraced headteacher who used funds to build a "sex dungeon"
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Fraud
  • May 17, 2018
NUS report criticises Home Office over English language tests
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Student unions English Language Fraud Student visas International students
  • May 8, 2018
Ucas orders inquiry into 'racial profiling' of UK students
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University applications Racism Fraud
  • Apr 24, 2018
UCAS' statement on its verification service
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University admissions University applications Fraud University places
  • Apr 23, 2018
Food, fraud and going abroad: What’s on Ofsted’s £1m credit card bill?
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Ofsted Finances Fraud
  • Apr 17, 2018
USA: Trump University settlement now final as objector drops appeal
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USA Fraud Legal action Students
  • Apr 9, 2018
International students targeted by phone scammers
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International students Fraud Immigration
  • Mar 29, 2018
Three senior Team Wearside staff jailed for £460,000 fraud
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Fraud Legal action Training providers
  • Mar 28, 2018
Academy trust guide to reducing fraud
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Academies MATs Fraud ESFA
  • Mar 23, 2018
Police organisation teams up with NAHT to beat recruitment fraud
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Teacher recruitment Fraud
  • Mar 11, 2018
Tackling fraud and malpractice by recruitment agencies
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Fraud Malpractice Recruitment
  • Mar 9, 2018
'Chancer's charter' persists in alternative higher education sector
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OfS Malpractice Alternative provision Fraud Student retention Drop-out rates
  • Mar 7, 2018
MPs call for action on fraud and malpractice at alternative 'university' providers
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Alternative provision Fraud PAC Malpractice Student finance
  • Mar 7, 2018
Schools lose £145k to fraudsters posing as heads in new scam
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Fraud Finances Headteachers
  • Mar 2, 2018
Nursery deputy found guilty of fraud
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Nursery school Fraud
  • Feb 28, 2018
Warning as fraudsters target schools using fake emails from headteachers
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Fraud Headteachers Technology Finances
  • Feb 21, 2018
Fake football coaching apprenticeship cost Skills Funding Agency millions
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Football Apprenticeships Funding ESFA Fraud
  • Feb 5, 2018
The £5m apprenticeship fraud run by former footballers Aizlewood and Sugrue
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Football Apprenticeships Fraud Funding Skills SFA
  • Feb 5, 2018
Ex-Wales international facing jailed and sacked from club for scamming schools and colleges out £5 million
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Fraud Colleges Funding Football
  • Feb 5, 2018
Professional footballers found guilty of £5m apprenticeship subcontracting fraud
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Football Apprenticeships Fraud Colleges
  • Feb 5, 2018
How school leaders can be sucked into dodgy dealings
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Leaders Finances Fraud
  • Feb 2, 2018
London headteacher suspended after fraud arrest
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Headteachers Fraud
  • Jan 26, 2018
Fake degrees, real news
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Fake degrees Fraud Qualifications
  • Jan 23, 2018
Teacher training scheme run by former 'superhead' removes university accreditation 'error' from website
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Teach Forever Accreditation Fraud Finances
  • Jan 19, 2018
Thousands of Brits buy fake degrees from multi-million pound Pakistani ‘diploma mill’
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Qualifications Fraud Fake degrees Pakistan
  • Jan 17, 2018
Fake degrees from Pakistan sold to doctors
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Medical Degrees NHS Fraud Pakistan Qualifications
  • Jan 17, 2018
NHS consultants and nurses accused of buying fake degrees online
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NHS Fake degrees Fraud Medical Qualifications Pakistan
  • Jan 16, 2018
'Staggering' trade in fake degrees revealed
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Qualifications Fraud Degrees Pakistan
  • Jan 16, 2018
Fraudsters are intercepting school fee payments, warns Charity Commission
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School fees Fraud Private schools
  • Jan 11, 2018
Former 'superhead' banned over expenses sets up teacher training scheme
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Superheads Fraud Teacher training Teach Forever
  • Jan 10, 2018
Former 'super-head' banned over £30,000 false expenses claims starts own teacher training scheme
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Teacher training Superheads Finances Fraud Teach Forever
  • Jan 9, 2018
Warning after parents are conned out of thousands by hackers who send fake school bills using a Google app
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School fees Private schools Parents Fraud
  • Dec 21, 2017
Text alert: the ‘bank’ message that cost a student £5,400 of her loan money
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Fraud
  • Dec 9, 2017
Surge in young ‘money mules’ who risk prison for just £50
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Finances Students Fraud Funding
  • Nov 28, 2017
Daily roundup 27 November: Money mules, mental health, and 'super spreaders'
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Finances Fraud Mental health Wellness Health
  • Nov 27, 2017
Number of young people acting as 'money mules' doubles
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Universities Students Colleges Fraud Finances
  • Nov 27, 2017
In the news: 17 November
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Private providers Fraud Bogus students Admissions Student loans Universities Colleges Redundancies Funding Communications Student protests Free tuition Teaching excellence REF Maintenance grants Disadvantaged students BAME Ethnicity Minorities Diversity Equality
  • Nov 17, 2017
UK: Special investigation exposes student loans ‘fraud’
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Student loans Fraud Private providers Training providers
  • Nov 14, 2017
USA: Talks begin to rewrite rules protecting students from fraud
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USA Fraud Students Loan forgiveness International Tuition fees Student loans
  • Nov 13, 2017
Union calls for stricter regulation of for-profit colleges
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UCU Regulation Private providers Fraud Student loans
  • Nov 13, 2017
Panorama investigation uncovers an education agent recruiting bogus students
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Private providers Student loans Fraud
  • Nov 12, 2017
Edge Hill University dean and secret lover jailed for fraud
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Edge Hill Fraud
  • Oct 31, 2017
Former Edge Hill dean and his lover are jailed for £513,000 fraud
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Fraud Edge Hill
  • Oct 30, 2017
Pro vice-chancellor and lover jailed for £500,000 fraud
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Edge Hill Fraud
  • Oct 30, 2017
Former Edge Hill PVC jailed for five years over £500k fraud
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Edge Hill Fraud
  • Oct 30, 2017
In the news: 27 October 2017
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Academic freedom Free speech Brexit University of Cambridge English literature University access University admissions Strikes Fraud
  • Oct 27, 2017
University chief faces prison over £500,000 fraud
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Fraud
  • Oct 20, 2017
Edge Hill University managers found guilty of fraud
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UCU Universities Fraud Management Governance Unions
  • Oct 20, 2017
Edge Hill's former dean of education convicted of fraud
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TES Fraud Leaders Legal action
  • Oct 20, 2017
Baverstock Academy fraud inquiry closed
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Schools Week Academies Fraud
  • Oct 18, 2017
Police close fraud inquiry involving Baverstock Academy
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TES Academies Fraud Secondary schools
  • Oct 18, 2017
Scotland: Celtic teacher Anthony Russell escapes ban over tickets fraud
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Times Scotland Teachers Misconduct Fraud
  • Oct 17, 2017
Ex-ITP boss on trial for alleged Sunderland College fraud
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FE Week Colleges Fraud Training providers
  • Oct 13, 2017
Trial begins: Former Welsh footballer and three others accused of £5 million FE fraud
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FE Week Fraud Legal action Colleges Apprenticeships Funding
  • Sep 7, 2017
Two men plead guilty following Serious Fraud Office investigation into Luis Michael Training
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FE Week Legal action Training providers Fraud
  • Sep 6, 2017
Former head guilty of £100,000 fraud and having sex in school
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Schools Week Headteachers Leaders Fraud Academies Misconduct
  • Sep 5, 2017
Ex-Wales footballer among 6 facing trial next month on FE fraud charges
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FE Week Wales Legal action Fraud Training providers
  • Aug 17, 2017
Oxford university in fake awards farce
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Times Universities Oxford Fraud Awards
  • Jul 24, 2017
Newcastle University students targeted by cyber-scam
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BBC Universities Fraud Cyber security
  • Jul 21, 2017
Approved for apprenticeships – while being investigated for fraud
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TES Apprenticeships Fraud Skills Training providers ESFA
  • Jul 21, 2017
Fraud, asbestos and a spike in complaints revealed by Education Funding Agency accounts
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TES Academies DfE Free schools Funding Fraud Asbestos EFA ESFA Finances School places
  • Jul 19, 2017
Ofqual to investigate DCS qualifications fraud
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FE Week DCS Qualifications Fraud Malpractice Colleges Ofsted
  • Jul 19, 2017
UK NARIC deal to verify foreign credentials
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PIE News UK NARIC Qualifications Fraud Universities Academics International staff Credentials
  • Jul 18, 2017
Did students illegally vote twice for Jeremy Corbyn? What the Electoral Commission report says - and what it doesn't
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Mirror Universities Colleges Student voters Politics Fraud
  • Jul 18, 2017
Ireland: EU opens fraud inquiry into Templemore garda training college
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Times Ireland Colleges Training Fraud EU funding Funding
  • Jul 17, 2017
Tory MP Sir Henry Bellingham claims ‘many’ students voted twice in the general election
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Huffington Post Universities Colleges Student voters Social media Politics Fraud
  • Jul 6, 2017
Students boasted of voting twice, MP says
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BBC Universities Student voters Fraud Politics
  • Jul 5, 2017
Ireland: Garda college ‘fraud’ referral is conveniently timed, say TDs
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Times Ireland Fraud Colleges Finances Training
  • Jun 21, 2017
Accounts reveal shocking financial mismanagement at defunct academy trust
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Schools Week Accounts Finances Fraud Misconduct ESFA Funding Academies MATs
  • Jun 7, 2017
UK's best-paid primary headteacher suspended amid fraud inquiry
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Guardian Primary schools Leaders Headteachers Fraud
  • May 10, 2017
Ministers must stop spreading bogus news about bogus colleges
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Wonkhe Universities Higher Education and Research Bill HE Bill International students Immigration Student visas Fraud Colleges Providers
  • Apr 25, 2017
Fraudulent communications claiming to be from ESFA
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FE News ESFA Fraud Academies MATs
  • Apr 18, 2017
Troubled Baverstock Academy at centre of police fraud investigation
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TES Academies Finances Fraud Secondary schools School closures Special measures
  • Apr 10, 2017
Police launch fraud inquiry at Baverstock Academy
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Schools Week Academies Finances Fraud School closures
  • Apr 10, 2017