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Digital skills: Gaps and shortages mean it’s time to scale up to level up

Expanding expertise and resources is necessary to tackle skills shoratges and a lack of diversity in the digital sector, writes Mark Smith

Opinion, Adult education

Twelfth UTC closure confirmed

The 14-19 college has failed to recruit enough students to become financially viable

News

More employers want technical skills delivered via FE, not university

Businesses are tired of graduates not having the right technical skills – but the FE white paper and other changes allow colleges to step in, writes Mark Smith The word ‘university’ is derived from the Latin word universus, meaning ‘whole, entire’. In a strictly academic sense, it is the shortening of the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et […]

Opinion

ESFA apprenticeship assessment register needs to be ‘purged’

The government has been told to “purge” its official register of end-point assessment organisations (RoEPAO) after FE Week found a sole trader and a new company with no trading history had successfully applied. Sixteen companies were added to the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s register last month, taking the total on there to 215. FE […]

News

Digital skills duo told to drop Code College title

The founders of the new National College for Digital Skills have dropped plans to be called Code College after a small business with the same name launched legal action. Company records show that Tom Fogden and Mark Smith, who last December received Prime Minister David Cameron’s backing for their new college, had incorporated their new […]

News

Fourth ‘national college’ gets digital skills focus

England’s fourth national college will focus on digital skills and coding, it has been revealed. The National College for Digital Skills, which will begin working with part-time learners next year and open a new campus in London in 2016, will focus on higher apprenticeships and foundation degrees for learners over 18, with some provision for […]

News

Schooling from City of Bath College DJ

Youngsters from Bath’s Widcome Junior School have been treated to a DJing masterclass by a talented DJ from City of Bath College. J Cassidy, a second year music technology student, rounded off pupils’ arts week with a hands-on DJ training session. Mark Smithers, the College’s head of music technology, was on hand to explain some […]

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Data management – abuse or inadequacy?

The recent FE Week headline about the leaked Tenon report once again brings to the fore accusations of manipulating data in order to boost success rates. Originally highlighted by Geoff Russell’s infamous ‘cease and desist’ letter whilst Chief Executive of the LSC in December 2009, it’s also the reason we developed our ADaM software, allowing […]

Opinion

‘Trials and tribulations’ feature at Lsect college data conference

Every year colleges are asked to change not only the data that they send to government, but the software and management tools which they use to collect it. The Autumn College Data Conference held by Lsect was a chance for further education (FE) colleges to discuss good practise with experts and colleagues. The main conference […]

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