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Revealed: SEND centres for excellence model to expand with six new providers

Two years on, the sector’s ‘centres for excellence’ in special educational needs will be joined by mini-hubs. Jess Staufenberg looks at how the model is working so far Almost two years ago, the government announced that three “Centres for Excellence” in special educational needs and disabilities would be spreading best practice and expertise around the […]

Feature, News, Long read, SEND

Revealed: The 3 colleges that will share £1.2m to open centres for excellence in SEND

Three colleges have been chosen to open centres for excellence in special educational needs and disabilities. City College Norwich, Derby College and Weston College will each share a slice of £1.2 million to provide support for leaders, managers and practitioners who wish to put learners with SEND at the heart of their organisation. Selected by […]

News

FE should be front and centre in post-18 education review

Derby College Group’s historic Roundhouse campus was chosen by the Prime Minister’s Office to host the announcement of a major review into post-18 education. Here, DCG’s chief executive Mandie Stravino reacts to the announcement and explains why the involvement of FE is a crucial part of the overall review When we were approached by the […]

Opinion

International learners publish a book on their stories of home

A group of international students at Derby College have written a book about their memories of home for a local book festival. The group of 28, who all study the college’s Lexis intensive language programme, officially launched their book, entitled ‘Stories from Home, Journeys of Hope’, at the third annual Derby Book Festival. Three of […]

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Movers and Shakers: Edition 174

Jane Button has been appointed as principal at the National College for the Creative and Cultural Industries in Purfleet. The college, which opens in September, is for students who want to study a level four professional diploma in technical and production. Ms Button is currently the director of learning at Lambeth College — where she […]

Movers and Shakers

Bristol college’s accounts question future as a ‘going concern’

A college’s own accounts have questioned its “ability to continue as a going concern” after it was set to receive more than £11m in exceptional financial support (EFS) from the Skills Funding Agency (SFA). Audited 2014/15 accounts for City of Bristol College (CBC) showed that it had received a total of £6,449,000 in EFS up […]

News

Edition 101: Neil Fowkes

Former Rolls-Royce apprenticeships learning and development manager Neil Fowkes has been appointed director of apprenticeships and engineering at Derby College. Mr Fowkes studied at Mackworth Tertiary College, which is now part of Derby College during his own apprenticeship, and has worked in engineering for the past 27 years, initially at International Combustion and then Rolls-Royce. […]

Movers and Shakers

Top college earner figures ‘not showing full picture’

Calls for college chief executive and principal pay levels to be published have emerged amid concerns the growth of group management structures could mean taxpayers are not getting the full picture of top college earners. College accounts for the 2012/13 academic year, published this week by the Skills Funding Agency (SFA), only include pay and […]

News

Providers underpaid on ASB by £61.8m

Just over half of all providers in England were not paid for all the work they carried out last academic year, leaving some providers “very disappointed”. The Funding Year Values released by the Skills Funding Agency last month showed 51 per cent (514) of the 1015 providers included were paid less than the value of […]

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