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Focus feature: College improvement

How do you improve a college with a demoralised staff, a financial notice, a bad Ofsted and a haemorrhaging learner roll? Jess Staufenberg speaks to those with the huge task of college turnaround Everyone can name the scandals in further education. Leaders who perhaps once gained recognition, but later had to step down as their […]

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MPs in fight to save land-based college

A cross-party group of MPs is fighting to save a land-based college they fear could be closed following the launch of an FE Commissioner review of its provision. Conservative MP Neil Hudson, who represents Penrith and the Border in Cumbria, has been joined by other local members of parliament, including former Liberal Democrat leader Tim […]

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College at risk of insolvency handed ESFA warning over finances

A college at risk of insolvency after its income halved in seven years has been handed a financial health notice to improve by the Education and Skills Funding Agency. Cheadle and Marple Sixth Form College is one of two colleges to be handed such a notice today; the other, Warrington and Vale Royal College, was […]

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Second consecutive grade four Ofsted for previously ‘outstanding’ college

A former ‘outstanding’ college has been hit with a second consecutive ‘inadequate’ rating from Ofsted in just 15 months. Mid-Cheshire College was slammed by the education watchdog in a report published last March, which plummeted the college from the highest to the lowest overall grade. It followed a respite period of eight years from the […]

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Warnings over finances for three colleges and council’s adult education provision

Three more colleges have had concerns raised over their finances, alongside Wakefield council’s adult education provision, according to the latest reports from the FE Commissioner. The reports for Telford College of Arts and Technology (TCAT), Richmond upon Thames College (RUTC), Warrington Collegiate, and Wakefield District Council were published on April 21, following visits by the […]

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Edition 127: Nichola Newton, Paul Hafren, Penny Wycherley & Colette Cohen

Warrington Collegiate came under the principalship of Nichola Newton this month. She took over from Paul Hafren, who retired at Christmas after 12 years as principal. She joined from Leeds City College where she was deputy principal, having previously served in senior roles at Runshaw College, Nelson and Colne College and Ashton Sixth Form College. […]

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