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Pat Carvalho announced as new AoC president

She will take over from Corrienne Peasgood on October 16

News, Colleges

Birmingham college recovers after four ‘requires improvement’ results

Birmingham Metropolitan College awarded grade 2 rating for the first time since 2011

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Fourth consecutive ‘requires improvement’ Ofsted rating for BMet

Inspectors criticised leaders for failing to ensure the college’s curriculum is “consistently good in all subjects and at all campuses”

News, Ofsted

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 339

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Pat Carvalho, Principal, BMet Start date: June 2021 Previous job: Principal, Harrow College; Deputy chief executive, HCUC Interesting fact: She enjoys thrillers, and grew up in Birmingham, so is returning to her home city to lead BMet Jeff Greenidge, Director for diversity, Education and Training Foundation […]

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Just 7% of college principals are from a BAME background

The number of colleges led by a non-white principal has fallen to a low of 7 per cent, new FE Week analysis has revealed. A number of initiatives to encourage and support Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) leadership have stalled in recent years and now three of the nine regions in England have no […]

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Revealed: The 17 FE projects to share £57m Skills for Londoners Capital Fund

The Mayor of London has today revealed the FE projects that will share £57.6 million to spend on improving training facilities and equipment, as part of the second round of the Skills for Londoners Capital Fund. Seventeen providers, nine of which are colleges, will benefit from funding of between £150,000 and £10 million. The Greater […]

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Special investigation: Why are colleges turning their backs on traineeships?

Colleges delivered less than a quarter of traineeships last year and nearly half across the country had no starts whatsoever, according to FE Week analysis of government figures. In fact, the Education and Skills Funding Agency is aware that only 24 per cent of traineeships were delivered by general further education colleges. That works out […]

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Featured: Harrow helps Faye on road to Rio

Paralympic athlete Faye McClelland is being backed all the way to Rio 2016 by her former college, with the current crop of students also reaping the benefits of a sponsorship deal, writes Billy Camden. Four-time World Paratriathlon Champion and three times European Champion Faye McClelland will have Harrow College partly to thank if she wins […]

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London principal hit with first inadequate GFE college rating under new Ofsted inspection regime

London’s Stanmore College has been handed the ignominious honour of being the first general FE college to be branded inadequate under Ofsted’s new common inspection framework (Cif). It slumped from requiring improvement in its previous inspection report in May last year, to the grade four result with principal Jacqui Mace (pictured below right) and her governors […]

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