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Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Jenna Wrathall MBE, High-performance skills coach, WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence Start date: August 2020 Previous job: WorldSkills expert, chief expert at EuroSkills and WorldSkills UK training manager in beauty therapy Interesting fact: She represented the UK in Beauty Therapy at WorldSkills Montreal 1999 where she […]
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Twenty one colleges in the West Midlands have joined forces to produce a region-wide approach to educating learners about the dangers of gang violence and knife crime. Announced at the beginning of Colleges Week, the Further Education and Skills Productivity Group has designed a ‘Safer Student Charter’ with support from the West Midlands Combined Authority […]
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A college that underwent a £5 million makeover just four years ago is set to close, following a review by the FE Commissioner. Stourbridge College, which makes up Birmingham Metropolitan College, alongside four other main divisions, will transfer its 900 learners to two other nearby colleges in September. Dudley College of Technology will take on […]
Four new deputies have been appointed to support the FE commissioner in his drive to slash the number of colleges rated grade three or four, FE Week can exclusively reveal. The new recruits – which include two principals who will retire from their colleges later this year – mean Richard Atkins now has an army […]
These are the new members of FE Commissioner Dr David Collins’ team, FE Week can exclusively reveal. Five deputy commissioners, four of which had already been working as advisers to Dr Collins, have been appointed along with nine new advisers. It takes Dr Collins’ team up to 21 — consisting of five deputies and 16 […]
Two new advisers have been appointed by the Education Funding Agency (EFA) to help Sixth Form Commissioner Peter Mucklow haul in under-achieving providers. The first of them is chair of governors at Blackpool Sixth Form College (SFC) and national leader of governance advocate at the National College for Teaching and Leadership (NCTL), John Boyle. The […]
These are the five former principals and one ex-vice principal that make up the new intake of advisers for FE Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured front), FE Week can reveal. Phil Frier, Dr Beri Hare, John Hogg, Steve Hutchinson, Chris Jones and Lynne Craig have won posts at the commissioner’s office. Their appointments take the […]
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has received a “significant” response in its effort to boost the five-strong team of advisers to FE Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured above from an FE Week cartoon story in November). The application process for the part-time roles, which pay a daily rate of £600, closed on July 11 […]
A former principal and ex-president of the Association of Colleges has been appointed as the government’s first FE Commissioner. Dr David Collins CBE, also a former interim chief executive of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, will take the new troubleshooter post which comes with the power to call for the closure of failing colleges. […]
