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Adult Learners' Week 2013 Supplement

Adult Learners’ Week 2013 Supplement

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16 page special Adult Learners’ Week 2013 supplement, sponsored by apt awards. Click here to download (17mb) Introduction Adults return to education for a variety...
Guild to meet at Windsor Castle for ‘complex thinking time’

Guild to meet at Windsor Castle for ‘complex thinking time’

Twenty-nine “key people” from FE have been invited to eat, drink, sleep and “think” in secret at Windsor Castle about the sector’s new professional body. A spokesperson for the proposed...
Governor backs defiant Taylor

Governor backs defiant Taylor

‘It’s a comfort to be asked to stay on,’ says Coventry principal The chair of City College Coventry’s board of governors has refused to sack his principal after a disastrous...
Exam papers to be marked in India

Exam papers to be marked in India

A leading FE awarding body’s decision to send exam papers to India to be marked could hit standards, Unison’s head of colleges has warned. Christine Lewis questioned City & Guilds’...
Guide to 24+ Advanced Learning Loans supplement

Guide to 24+ Advanced Learning Loans supplement

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16 page special Guide to FE Loans, sponsored by Tribal. Click here to download (17mb) Introduction It’s never a surprise to see...
Let’s have balance at the top, says FE

Let’s have balance at the top, says FE

The lack of female politicians responsible for FE has been criticised following a mini-reshuffle. The departure of Karen Buck, junior Shadow Minister for education, will leave no women in senior...
Advertisement: AIM FOR VALUE

Advertisement: AIM FOR VALUE

To support FE providers in the face of ongoing budget cuts we are reducing the prices of over 30 qualifications from May 2013 to June 2014. Come along to our...
Hear our voice, the NUS tells FE Guild

Hear our voice, the NUS tells FE Guild

The National Union of Students will continue to push for a learner presence on the board of the FE Guild, describing the lack of representation as “wrong”. President-elect Toni Pearce,...
Celebrating 20 years of college independence

Celebrating 20 years of college independence

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16 page special anniversary supplement celebrating 20 years of college independence, sponsored by NOCN. Click here to download (10mb) Introduction Twenty years...
Pearce takes the top job at the NUS

Pearce takes the top job at the NUS

The first president of the National Union of Students from an FE background said her election was an “exciting” development that showed the union had “come a long way”. Toni...
Effective Leadership and Governance supplement

Effective Leadership and Governance supplement

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16 page special supplement on effective leadership and governance, sponsored by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS). Click here to download...
The FE Week National Apprenticeship Week 2013 supplement

The FE Week National Apprenticeship Week 2013 supplement

Download your copy of our special 16 page supplement, produced in partnership with NCFE, via the link below. > http://lsect.co.uk/NAW-2013-Supp.pdf (15mb) Introduction to the supplement Thousands of apprentices, from hairdressers to...
Special 16 page AoC in India supplement

Special 16 page AoC in India supplement

Download your copy of this special 16 page supplement, produced by FE Week and sponsored by NOCN Click here to download (18mb PDF) A paper copy of the supplement will...
All new twitter guide - in partnership with NCFE

All new twitter guide – in partnership with NCFE

Click here to download the Twitter guide pdf (11mb) Intro to the guide: Love it or loathe it, Twitter is seemingly everywhere. Across the globe last year, there were an...
The Skills Show Souvenir Edition

The Skills Show Souvenir Edition

The Skills Show Souvenir Edition – sponsored by City & Guilds Dowload your copy by clicking here: http://lsect.co.uk/Skills-Show-2012-Souvenir-Edition.pdf (18mb)
Supporting Improvement

Supporting Improvement

Download your copy of this free 16 page special supplement, produced in partnership with LSIS, via the link below: Supporting Improvement supplement
Implementing English, maths and functional skills

Implementing English, maths and functional skills

Download your copy of this free 16 page special supplement, produced in partnership with Tribal, via the link below: . http://lsect.co.uk/FINAL-Tribal-Autumn-Supplement.pdf (5MB) . . .
UCU Congress 2012 Supplement

UCU Congress 2012 Supplement

Download your copy of the FE Week supplement produced for the annual University and College Union congress. Click here to download (10mb) Editorial from the supplement Over three days in Manchester around...

Fall in unemployed adults learning

Fall in unemployed adults learning
The chief executive of NIACE has said some of the results of the 2012 Adult Participation in Learning Survey “paint a very worrying picture”. The survey showed the...

Building a career through education

Building a career through education
Paul Cano-Lopez won an individual learner award in 2001, and since then has completed two masters’ degrees and now runs his own successful training company. At 28 Paul,...

‘I’m just a normal guy with a passion for the film industry’

‘I’m just a normal guy with a passion for the film industry’
A former soldier who left the army to pursue a career in film and is now working for Pinewood Studios has won the Learning through Arts, Craft Skills...

Overcoming adversity through adult learning

Overcoming adversity through adult learning
A beauty apprentice from Somerset has battled against dyslexia, won a national skills contest, started her own business, looked after a young child – and won this year’s...

Chutney for change

Chutney for change
A woman who is running a social enterprise while studying for a degree has won a North West Regional Individual Learner Award. Rachel Gilkes, 37, from Chorley, enrolled...

The K College catalogue

The provision, debts and estate of a troubled Kent college being split up and sold off in pieces have been laid bare in a catalogue for what has...