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Principals’ dismay over £50m pay deal ‘own goal’

College leaders divided over effectiveness of the one-off grant

News, Colleges, Politics

Ofsted downgrades large Birmingham college to ‘requires improvement’

Inspectors criticise low achievement rates and poor attendance at SCCB

News, Ofsted

14-16 college entry 10 years on: ‘Transformational’ policy plagued with funding and reputation risks

A decade of direct entry has seen nearly 13,000 14-16 students taught in colleges

News, 14-16, Colleges, Long read

Home Office offers concessions on Ukrainian students’ visas

The DfE confirmed to FE Week that Ukrainian students who extend their study visas in the UK will be able to access several sources of funding

News

Tributes paid after death of ‘larger than life’ principal John Callaghan

Callaghan has been called an ‘exceptional’ principal by sector leaders

News

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2021: Who received what in FE?

The next FE commissioner and the author of the landmark post-18 education review are among those receiving gongs in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours list. Included in the awards for almost 20 people from the FE and skills sector is a knighthood for Philip Augar and a CBE for Chichester College Group principal Shelagh Legrave. […]

News

‘All hell was breaking loose’: How hackers forced a mega college to close

FE Week tells the inside story of the cyber attack that shut down one of Birmingham’s major colleges, and finds out what others can do to protect themselves from similar threats. At around 3am last Saturday, an alert rang out around South and City College Birmingham’s key staff and managers that the server had crashed. […]

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College closes all campuses for a week following ‘major’ cyber attack

A Birmingham college has closed all its campuses to students for a week following a “major” ransomware cyber attack that disabled its core IT systems. The eight sites of South and City College Birmingham will be shut and revert to online teaching from today while computer forensic specialists work to fix the problem. The college […]

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FE staff should get Covid vaccine priority, say college leaders

FE staff should be moved up the priority list for Covid-19 vaccines so that providers can reopen to all students safely, college principals have said. Ministers have been under pressure to vaccinate teachers, with a petition being debated in parliament this evening and education secretary Gavin Williamson saying he “hopes” those working in education get […]

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