News

Dame Ruth in fine fettle for leadership role return

Dame Ruth Silver is making her FE and skills return with a new sector leadership thinktank funded by money...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Bulletin

Human poppy marks 100th anniversary of outbreak of Great War

Staff and students from the Sixth Form College Farnborough helped create a giant human poppy to commemorate 100 years...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Taking a lead on teaching, learning and assessment — the role of governors

A half-day workshop with more than 40 FE college governors, principals and clerks has resulted in a new report...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

New alliance aims to help colleges recruit better governors

A new organisation has been launched today to encourage high-calibre and skilled people to join college governing bodies. The...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Employers call for apprenticeship control — but what did key FE players think?

More than 30 employer bodies joined forces to call for greater control over apprenticeships just days after a technical...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

LeSoCo principal Maxine Room to stand down

The principal of LeSoCo in south east London is to stand down at the end of the academic year,...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
News

Success rates change makes system ‘overly complex’

A college principal has hit out at proposed changes to the way the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) reports and...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Movers and Shakers

Edition 102: Colette Burgess and Nigel McQuoid

  A new principal has been appointed at an Oldham College-sponsored academy. Colette Burgess is due to take over...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Could Cable’s ‘elite’ colleges lead in the wrong direction?

Business Secretary Vince Cable’s Cambridge Public Policy Lecture on the future of further and higher education last month brought...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter