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Students call for wiser use of money in online exhibition

The annual exhibition features art from students in the UK and Sweden

News, sixth form colleges

Another bailout for troubled college with merger in sight

But the college has been stung by a £500k AEB clawback

News, Colleges

Martin Sim, principal, City College Southampton

Martin Sim, deputy FE commissioner and now emergency principal at City College Southampton, has done some of the toughest troubleshooting gigs in the sector. He tells Jess Staufenberg why a ‘skull and crossbones’ approach keeps him buoyed up When the FE commissioner’s team does an “intervention assessment” at a college, I can’t help imagining a […]

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DfE reveals plan for three-way merger to secure survival of cash-strapped Southampton college

The proposal forms the outcome of the DfE’s long-awaited City-wide Solution project Southampton

News, Colleges

Revealed: Almost 50 T Level colleges sharing £48.5m to refurbish buildings

Almost 50 colleges set to deliver T Levels from 2021 will share £48.5 million to refurbish their buildings. Successful projects include a new civil engineering centre at the Lakes College in Cumbria, and a brand new teaching block at Burnley College that will include classrooms, an elite athlete gym and a sports therapy space. The […]

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Ofsted watch: Nearly a clean sweep of positive results for FE providers throughout May

Almost nine in ten full Ofsted inspection reports for FE providers returned either ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ grades in May. And all but one of the 13 monitoring reports published this month produced ‘reasonable’ or ‘significant’ progress ratings. The education watchdog originally paused the publication of all further education and skills reports on the 20 March […]

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Second college merger postponed due to Covid-19

A merger involving a college that previously warned it was dependent upon the move for survival has been delayed by a year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Southampton City College is now set to join Itchen Sixth Form College in August 2021, having scheduled the move for this summer. It is the second college merger […]

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College relying on secret last-ditch merger to survive before cash runs out in October

A bank has pulled a cash-strapped college’s overdraft facility as the clock ticks for its survival – which rests upon a last-ditch merger. Southampton City College is currently operating on government bailouts but its 2018/19 accounts were signed off on a “non-going concern” basis and warn that it will run out of cash by October. […]

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Sixth form college staff to strike against 16-19 funding cuts in lead up to the budget

“Angry” sixth form college staff will hit the picket line tomorrow as they step up their protest against government funding cuts in the build up to next month’s budget. National Education Union members from 34 sixth form colleges will be taking strike action. Two further strikes will take place 27 February and 10 March. The […]

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