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Hullraisers taking college from underdog to top dog

Principal Debra Gray built a team that pulled Hull College out of intervention – and now draws on city pride to look forwards with determination

Feature, News, Colleges, Long read

When it comes to apprenticeships, this government can bring receipts

I got from the shop floor to the floor of the house of commons and our reforms will ensure that opportunity is open for all

Opinion, Apprenticeships

Revealed: Colleges scoop £165m local skills improvement fund

DfE green lights employer-backed skills projects led by colleges

News, LSIPs

Covid blamed as targets revised at flagship Institutes of Technology

Covid is being blamed for recruitment concerns at the government’s new flagship Institutes of Technology (IoT), FE Week can reveal. Despite demand for more traditional FE courses booming, the Department for Education is understood to be in negotiations with several IoTs over revising down contractual student number targets. A crunch meeting was held in June […]

News

Adult education slumps to lowest since major survey began more than 20 years ago

The government has been told to “wakeup” after research by the Learning and Work Institute found adult participation in education has fallen to a record low. The news comes after adult education was snubbed in the Chancellor’s Spending Review, which handed £400 million to students aged 16 to 19 – but nothing to older learners. […]

News

DfE to review Institute of Technology ‘cold spots’

The government has said it may tender for more Institutes of Technology after FE Week shared concerns that there were none planned in the north west and the east of England. Just two of the 12 flagship institutes being taken forward after a two-stage tender process are in the north, with the north west being […]

News

Three schools removed from T-levels 2020 delivery but one college added

Three schools will no longer deliver the first wave of T-levels after one received a low grade from Ofsted and two others “decided not to” take part. But Suffolk New College has been added to the list of those delivering the technical qualifications from 2020, after the government went back out to find providers when […]

News

Sal Cooke, education technology expert

Sal Cooke’s experience of using technology in the sector certainly proves that — at least amongst her peers — millennials aren’t the owners of internet. In fact one of Cooke’s worries for the future is that the next generation might not be ready keep things moving forward with technology in the sector. “There’s a whole […]

Profiles

Knighthood for FE Commissioner in New Year’s Honours list

Further Education Commissioner Dr David Collins has been given a knighthood for services to the sector in the New Year’s Honours list. A Damehood was also granted to chief regulator and chief executive of Ofqual Glenys Stacey, while CBEs went to Association of Colleges (AoC) chief executive Martin Doel and former AoC president Richard Atkins […]

News