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At the helm of the only national college group

Liz Bromley is feeling a little fragile today. She is heading home from NCG’s offices at Newcastle College by train instead of driving, because a “mad burst of floaters” in her eye, which she at first put down to stress, turned out to be a torn retina. Her eye is now filled with oil to […]

Profiles, Colleges, Long read

Why everyone benefits when more staff are trained in BSL

Every person who learns British Sign Language adds to the experience of the Deaf community and the inclusive culture of their college

Opinion, The Staffroom - opinion

Dates set for 26 college strikes this term

UCU confirms strike action will begin on September 26 at 26 colleges

News, Colleges

Strike votes open at 33 colleges

Industrial ballots opened today and will close on July 15

News, Staff

Plans to de-merge Lewisham College from NCG revealed

NCG and London South East Colleges are understood to be in discussions about the future of FE in Lewisham.

News, Colleges

Revealed: The 2021 Pearson Teaching Awards winners

Fifteen winners from across UK schools and colleges recognised

News

Testing times? Inside the reopening of colleges

An Herculean effort has seen colleges deploy mass Covid testing to support a safe reopening. So how did it go, and what does the future hold? JL Dutaut finds out “I wasn’t coping at home although my teachers really tried with me.” Our dominant image of vulnerable learners amid this pandemic may be of children […]

Feature

Profile: Asfa Sohail. Principal, Lewisham College

JL Dutaut meets a college principal for whom building resilience is a matter of building communities   How are you?  Good leaders ask this question often. The best stick around for the answer. But it’s their lot seldom to be asked the question themselves.  It’s one of the changes Lewisham College principal Asfa Sohail has noticed among her staff and […]

Profiles

Profile: Gerard Garvey, principle of Newcastle Sixth Form College

FE Week meets a sixth form college principal who has known what he wanted to do since year 12 “I remember getting to sixth form and thinking vividly, ‘this is what I want to work in. This is the environment for me.’” It may seem quite incredible that as a 17-year-old, Gerard Garvey, now principal […]

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