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Investigation: College sector recruitment highs & lows after virus and exams fiasco

As colleges re-open their doors after a summer like no other, staff have had to cross their fingers and hope new learners turn up, on the right courses for them. The outlook was nerve-wracking – schools that would usually hold students’ hands until they reach college hadn’t seen their pupils in months. Employers normally offering […]

Feature, News

Profile: Michelle Brabner, CEO and principal, Southport College

FE Week meets a new college chief whose fresh and flexible approach may be just what sector needs post-pandemic Taking up your first principalship and walking straight into an Ofsted inspection is no one’s professional dream. Taking up your first principalship, walking straight into an Ofsted inspection and then, within weeks, dealing with a college […]

Profiles

Why it’s good to get out of your comfort zone and create ‘the new normal’

Michelle Brabner’s first days in her new job as college principal occurred just as the coronavirus pandemic took hold. It would be fair to say that I consider myself fortunate. My family and I remain healthy so far, I have a career I am passionate about, and even though I find myself working from my […]

Opinion

Introducing… John Clarke

FE Week meets a principal whose career has been defined by quiet consistency, and who has a few parting words for the sector’s leaders It was a college principal who suggested I go and interview John Clarke, the retiring boss at Southport College in Merseyside and FE career veteran of 35 years. I’d asked for […]

Profiles

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 304

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Clare Russell, Principal, Runshaw College Start date: August 2020 Previous job: Deputy principal, Runshaw College Interesting fact: She bought her first house aged 19, with savings from her £1.50 an hour job in a chip shop. Matthew Percival, Director of people and skills policy, Confederation of British […]

Bulletin, Movers and Shakers

DfE figures reveal the FE sector winners and losers in vocational and A-level provision

Greenhead Sixth Form College has come out on top again in this year’s league tables for schools and colleges, according to government figures released on Thursday (January 21). It boasted the highest average point score among sixth form colleges (SFCs) both per full time vocational student and full time A-level student, in the latest Department […]

News

Tables joy for duo on A-levels and vocational study

Truro and Penwith College and Runshaw College dominated this year’s league tables for general FE (GFE) and tertiary colleges, government figures released on Thursday (January 29) revealed. Cornwall-based Truro and Penwith College scored with top marks for value-added — the progress its learners make over their course as expressed as a proportion of a grade […]

News