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Collaboration between AELP, AoC and HOLEX is hugely important

The resilience of FE will be tested in the year ahead. Here are five key takeaways from our recent national conference, writes Jane Hickie AELP’s first in-person national conference in three years took place this week. Among the packed agenda, we learned a lot from the two-day event. Here’s five key takeaways from me: 1. […]

Opinion, Uncategorized

AELP conference highlights: Leaders talk funding rate review, the levy and staffing crisis

Ofsted, AoC, IfATE and CBI among speakers at AELP conference

News, apprenticeship levy, Apprenticeships, Colleges, Ofsted, Pay

Lifetime Training’s grade 3 Ofsted report published

Inspectors criticise focus on financial performance and starts over quality

News, Apprenticeships

The importance of joined-up data

How integrated data can help colleges drive improvement

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

Let’s prioritise skills spending on level 4 to level 7

Suggestions that training spend should be limited to those with the lowest qualifications are misguided, writes Mandy Crawford-Lee In the past couple of months, there has been some very useful analysis out from the Learning and Work Institute (LWI). This includes one of its most recent reports called ‘Raising the Bar’, on the lack of […]

Opinion

Focus feature: Women principals leaving a legacy in FE

This year numerous top female college principals are stepping down after giving their professional lives to the FE sector. Jess Staufenberg sits down with three of them, all of whom have been awarded OBEs and been nationally recognised for their pioneering work. What are the highs and lows of leadership? Karen Dobson, chief executive, Newcastle […]

Feature, News, Long read

7 ways to challenge college culture and get back to ‘good’

In 2019 I left higher education to become chief executive of the UK’s biggest national FE college group, comprising seven colleges. The year previously, Ofsted had downgraded NCG to ‘requires improvement’. A significant step change was required for the colleges all to reach the threshold for a ‘good’ grade. NCG’s two challenges were sustainable financial […]

Opinion, Ofsted

New DfE employer and apprentice surveys reveal reasons behind huge drop-out rate

Complex and wide ranging contributers to withdrawals found by researchers

News, Apprenticeships

Pre-T Level course flops in first year

Just 1 in 7 students on the first transition programme progressed on to a full T Level

News, T Levels