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Peck’s picks: FE leaders join OfS’ ‘critical friend’ panel

Two current and one former principal selected to alert higher education regulator to emerging risks

News, Higher education

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 377

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving

Movers and Shakers

Stoke-on-Trent College announces former skills civil servant as new principal

Lisa Capper replaces Denise Brown

News

Should the Further Education Trust for Leadership be replaced?

The Further Education Trust for Leadership think tank will close this year. Should the model be replicated? Jess Staufenberg finds out “Do we need an independent think tank for further education?” That’s the question that will be posed in a webinar next week by perhaps the only organisation that could claim to be exactly that. […]

Feature, News, Long read

Free recording: In conversation with skills minister Gillian Keegan

FE Week was joined by apprenticeships minister Gillian Keegan this afternoon for our latest webinar on the response to the coronavirus pandemic for the FE and skills sector. Editor Nick Linford quizzed her on the Department for Education’s guidance on the wider reopening of colleges and training providers. Roger Coates, the DfE’s deputy director for […]

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Colleges fail to win any OfS mental health funding

All three college bids for a £6 million fund to help reduce student mental health problems have been rejected. Instead, ten universities have been chosen to share the cash on offer from the Office for Students, along with co-funding of £8.5 million to develop “innovative” projects. The call was open to both universities and colleges, […]

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College that received £21.9m bailout to cut 39 jobs

Nearly 40 staff are expected to lose their jobs as part of a restructure at a college that received a government bailout of over £20 million last year. Stoke-on-Trent College is currently consulting on the plans that will not affect frontline teaching roles, but will see up to 103 staff in business support roles having […]

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£2m bank charge for college clearing debt with bailout

A cash-strapped college has spent almost £2 million of the bailout cash it received from the government on bank charges – although it has actually saved money. Stoke on Trent College successfully bid for a reported £21.9 million from the Department for Education’s restructuring facility in September. According to its recently published 2017/18 accounts, £1.93 […]

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Struggling Stoke-on-Trent College gets cash ‘boost’ from DfE support fund

A cash-strapped college which was almost £16 million in the red has received a “major boost” to its finances after the government agreed to give it extra cash. Stoke-on-Trent College announced today that its bid to the Department for Education’s restructuring facility has been successful, although would not confirm how much it has been allocated. […]

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