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Inside FE’s lifeline for under-16s: Stepping in where schools fail

More and more anxious 14-16 year olds not in school are starting afresh in colleges, but they are under-recognised, under-funded and potentially under pressure to get back to mainstream school classrooms

Feature, News, Colleges, Long read

‘Momentous’ top Ofsted rating for large Kent college group

EKC Group secures ‘outstanding’ designations in all areas

News, Colleges, Ofsted

FE projects win over £75m in levelling up cash

Projects include a new AI campus in Blackpool and a health and social care training school in Somerset

News, Colleges

Hadlow break-up hits two month delay due to ‘complexity’

Delays have struck the break-up of the first college group to go insolvent owing to the “necessarily complex and resource-intensive” nature of the transaction. The transfer of Hadlow College’s home campus (pictured), West Kent and Ashford College’s Tonbridge provision and Princess Christian’s Farm facility to North Kent College was scheduled to take place on April […]

News

Is your MP one of the 164 lobbying the chancellor for more FE funding?

A cross-party letter has been signed by 164 MPs and handed to the chancellor demanding an above inflation increase to FE funding in the upcoming spending review. Co-authored by Conservative MP Richard Graham and Labour MP Nic Dakin, the letter tells Phillip Hammond that “while government policy has protected the incomes of schools and universities, […]

News

Canterbury college answers a DIY SOS

Students at Canterbury College’s Sheppey campus have joined the construction team on the flagship BBC show, ‘DIY SOS: The Big Build’. The popular TV show – fronted by Nick Knowles – relies on volunteers from the construction trade to help transform the homes of needy families, and has been going since 1999. After producers put […]

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Minister to visit centre proposed as new FE college

Skills minister Nick Boles has agreed to visit a Kent skills centre following an invitation from the local MP who proposed the site as a potential new FE college. Mr Boles accepted an invitation to visit the Swale Skills Centre in response to a parliamentary question from Gordon Henderson, Conservative MP for Sittingbourne and Sheppey, […]

News

‘Extraordinary’ former Lambeth College vice principal dies, aged 68

A former London college vice-principal described by ex-colleagues as “a woman of extraordinary energy and judgement” has died, aged 68. Tributes poured in from ex-colleagues of Ruth Nixon (pictured), who was assistant principal and vice-principal of Lambeth College between 1994 and 2010. She died peacefully following a sudden illness on Friday, January 2. In a […]

News

Mark Dawe, chief executive, OCR

A former principal, chartered accountant and civil servant who pioneered online procurement for colleges and the Skills4Life initiative, Mark Dawe already has an impressive career under his belt. And at the age of 46, with a cycle challenge involving four of the French Alps on the horizon, it would appear the sky really is the […]

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