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Revealed: £302m college condition allocations

DfE also dishes out additional £20m to Leeds and Greater Manchester to help manage student population surge

News, Colleges

102 winners scoop silver at 2024 Pearson National Teaching Awards

‘Phenomenal devotion’ of teachers, leaders and lecturers recognised

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Pilot areas for £65m Strategic Development Fund announced

The Department for Education has revealed the pilot areas for the new Strategic Development Fund. The £65 million fund, first mooted in the Skills for Jobs white paper, went to tender in April. Eighteen winners have now been announced, of which eight will be Local Skills Improvement Plans trailblazer and development fund pilot areas. The […]

News, Skills reform

Focus: Animal care college courses during Covid

Students and staff let the cat out of the bag on one of the most specialist courses in further education  ̶ animal care in land-based colleges  “Animals don’t care about lockdown, you know? They still need feeding, cleaning out, mucking out, looking after. That pressure hasn’t changed. We’re just glad the students can still come […]

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Queen’s New Year honours 2021: Who got what in FE?

The outgoing FE Commissioner Richard Atkins has been knighted in the 2021 Queen’s New Year Honours. Around 30 people from the further education and skills sector have been recognised, including various top college leaders, a former chair of the Association of Colleges and a vice chair of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers. Atkins […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 325

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Jenna Wrathall MBE, High-performance skills coach, WorldSkills UK Centre of Excellence Start date: August 2020 Previous job: WorldSkills expert, chief expert at EuroSkills and WorldSkills UK training manager in beauty therapy Interesting fact: She represented the UK in Beauty Therapy at WorldSkills Montreal 1999 where she […]

Movers and Shakers

T-levels: The colleges selected to run courses in 2021

The names of the 64 colleges chosen to deliver T-levels in the second wave of their roll out have been announced. They’ll deliver the new post-16 technical education qualifications from 2021, in four routes: digital, construction, education and childcare, and health and science. An initial 50 providers will deliver the first T-levels from 2020. Unveiling […]

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Revealed: The 17 colleges to share £2.5m in final strategic improvement funding round

The names of final colleges set to share grants through a government fund designed to support struggling colleges have been announced. Skills minister Anne Milton today revealed that 17 colleges will share £2.5million in the third and last round of the strategic college improvement fund that was introduced in October 2017. The winners are: SCIF […]

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Ofsted watch: Private provider straight in with grade one

It’s been a week of mainly highs for FE as one provider was rated ‘outstanding’ in its first ever inspection, while another was found making ‘significant progress’ across the board in an early monitoring visit. The week wasn’t without its lows, however, as several providers scored ‘insufficient progress’ ratings in their own monitoring reports. White […]

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