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DfE begins search for next FE Commissioner

Shelagh Legrave’s replacement will get small salary boost

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 441

Jennifer Coupland Board Member, WorldSkills UK Start date: November 2023 Concurrent Job: Chief Executive, Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education Interesting fact: Jennifer has a particular talent for coming up with ideas that cost her husband money Jatinder Sharma Board Member, WorldSkills UK Start date: November 2023 Concurrent Job: Principal & Chief Executive, Walsall College […]

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Andy Street reveals ‘deeper devolution’ hopes under trailblazer deal

With a landmark new devolution deal due any day, West Midlands mayor Andy Street tells what he plans to do with more skills powers Andy Street is poised to sign a devolution deal that will make him the most powerful Tory mayor in England. It will add to a string of achievements for the former […]

Profiles, Adult education

New year honours 2023: Who got what in FE and skills?

A former president of the AoC has been made a dame alongside five CBEs, six OBEs and seven MBEs for FE and skills people in the 2023 new year honours

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New education secretary chooses ‘outstanding’ Walsall College for first FE visit

An ‘outstanding’ college was chosen by Justine Greening MP as her first FE institution for a visit since she became education secretary. The new minister, who replaced Nicky Morgan earlier this month, was given a tour of Walsall College — which was the first to receive a grade one Ofsted rating under the inspectorate’s previous […]

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New £11m business hub for Walsall College

Walsall College is starting the academic year by opening a new £11m business and sports hub. It includes a start-up business centre, and conference and event facilities for learners and the community. A sports hall, dance and fitness studios, gym, spa, sports training and injury clinic, plus a 40-seat bistro are also part of the facility. The gymnasium and business […]

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Apprenticeship dedication earns Jason Holt a New Year honour as 34 FE and skills figures celebrate awards

The author of a 2012 government-commissioned report aimed at boosting apprentice uptake among businesses is one of four FE and skills figures to have received a CBE in the New Year Honours list. Jason Holt (pictured), chief executive of jewellery firm Holts Group, wrote Making Apprenticeships More Accessible to Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and was honoured in the 2015 […]

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College’s ‘mother’ Pat retires after 28 years

A long-serving personal assistant known as the “mother” of Walsall College has retired after almost three decades in FE. Pat Cyster started working at the college in 1987 as departmental secretary for Kevin Moran, who was head of catering and food technology at the time. She was personal assistant for James Norris, assistant principal for […]

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Outstanding college rapped over academy standards

An academy backed by grade one-rated Walsall College has been warned by the government about “unacceptably low” standards. The Secretary of State and I are therefore satisfied that the standards of performance at Mirus Academy, Walsall, are unacceptably low,” Schools Minister Lord Nash has written to Walsall College Academies Trust chair Jatinder Sharma (pictured), who […]

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