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Leadership issues under the Fetl research spotlight

The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has announced the four winners in its first wave of fellowship grants to fund research. Alex Day MBE, Ruth Allen, Tim Ward and Ann Creed will get up to £40,000 each to fund their work. They will be looking at attitudes to risk in leadership of sixth form […]

Land agreed for HS2 college

Plans for one of two high speed rail national college campuses are a step closer to fruition after Doncaster City Council donated land for the project. The council’s cabinet agreed on Wednesday (January 7) to offer the 5.1-acre Carolina Way site as its contribution to the project, one of the first to be announced under […]

Department for Education overtime payments up 40pc

Department for Education (DfE) overtime payments rocketed by nearly 40 per cent between September and November, it has been revealed. According to workforce management information published by the DfE, overtime payments for the period went from £37,437 £51,729. It comes after the DfE’s overall full-time equivalent (FTE) staff numbers fell to 2,187 in November, down […]

Certification pledge amid Skills for Logisitics closure

Providers have been given assurances that logistics apprenticeships will continue to be certificated after the industry’s Sector Skills Council (SSC) announced it was closing. More than 30 jobs are thought to be at risk after the board of directors at Skills for Logistics (SfL), one of 18 SSCs in the UK, announced on Tuesday (January […]

Martin Ward, chair of governors, Leicester College

In these cash-strapped times, many principals would like to shave a few pounds off the expenditure column of their college finances. And it was no different during the time of incorporation, back in 1992, when a fortuitous boundary decision benefited Martin Ward, as principal of Hull’s Wyke Sixth Form College. It resulted in bills going […]

The indy scene

I arrived back in Britain on Tuesday after three weeks’ magnificent customer service in the United States and the Caribbean. Unfortunately, thanks to BA, my luggage remained in Philadelphia. And I soon knew I was back in the UK by the ‘jobsworth’ at Heathrow who handled my missing luggage claim. She tried to persuade me […]

Masochism and trust in the board and principal relationship

Governors bring a wealth of disparate expertise to the board table, but can sometimes fall short when it comes to their college knowledge. Lawrence Vincent provides 10 key questions governors should be armed with at their next meeting with the principal. College governing bodies have a responsibility to ensure that the core function of the […]

Full steam ahead for charities after mayor’s £2k London float win

Construction students and staff from Havering College of Further and Higher Education have helped The Mayor of Havering raise £2,000 for local charities by building a vintage steam train float. Learners Ben Leask, aged 17, and Jake Steadman, 16, joined Councillor Linda Trew on board the float for London’s New Year’s Day Parade. The float […]

Film festival praise for Cornwall College media production learners

Media students at Cornwall College won four out of five awards at Cornwall Film Festival 2014. Learners from the extended diploma media group collected the awards for best factual, best fiction and best entertainment films while students from the HND media group scooped the Cornwall Film Festival Audience Award. Naomi Rogers and Liam O’Hare study […]