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’
May 9, 2013
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...
New chief executive at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers
May 8, 2013
The incoming chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers has told how apprenticeships will be at the top of his agenda. Stewart Segal (pictured) takes...
Governor backs defiant Taylor
May 3, 2013
‘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...
Minister okays college merger
May 2, 2013
The troubled merger of two colleges in the Midlands has been given the nod of approval by Skills Minister Matthew Hancock, who had told them to take the...
Provider’s ‘appalling’ pass rate
May 2, 2013
Just 6,375 out of 13,420 adult retail apprentices succeeded England’s biggest apprenticeship provider has come under fire from the chair of a government watchdog after “appalling” figures revealed...
New audit reviews cause ‘major concern’
May 2, 2013
A new audit system from the Skills Funding Agency has caused “major concern” within the FE sector. Accountability reviews — described as “a key element of the agency’s...
