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Colleges celebrate the Olympic success of their students

As the Olympics came to a close last night, many colleges have been celebrating the success of former and current students. Twelve of Great Britain’s 65 medals were won by college students – here is the full list of winners: Picture caption (left to right): Luke Campbell, Nicola Adams and Anthony Joshua

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Deputy Chief Executive of the Association of Colleges quits to join Pearson

Lesley Davies, the deputy chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC), is leaving the AoC to become Director of Quality and Standards at Pearson. The announcement follows an unsettled time for the AoC, which has been making voluntary and compulsory redundancies as part of a cost saving and restructuring process, as reported in FE […]

Skills minister calls on sector to bid for ownership of new FE Guild

The Government is to fund a new professional body for further education and put on hold plans to scrap the requirement for lecturers to be qualified teachers, official documents revealed this week. Ministers yesterday invited bids from outside organisations to run the Further Education Guild which could be up and running by next spring, following […]

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Red Kite Learning says government policy squeezing out medium charities

The education and employment charity Red Kite Learning has announced it is closing after 25 years because government policies such as the Work Programme have “squeezed” out small and medium sized organisations. Brendan Tarring, the chief executive at Red Kite Learning, said the £500,000 minimum contract value meant the organisation had been unable to tender for […]

UNISON survey finds majority of colleges cut courses and staff

A significant number of FE college courses and staff have been cut, Unison has found. The union’s survey of 190 colleges revealed that 61 per cent have cut courses and 5,737 posts were also lost in the 2010/11 academic year. The figures were obtained by under the Freedom of Information Act. In a press release, the University […]

Why students should steer clear of clearing

On August 15 an 18-year-old near you will take a leap in the dark – they will be one of the 50,000 or so students whose A-level results were not good enough to get into their first or second choice university. I want to examine just how dangerous this leap is. I am of course talking […]

You’re hired! Birmingham finds new graduate apprentice

Lauren Hornbuckle has been hired as this year’s Graduate Apprentice and will be spending the next year undertaking paid placements with Blusource, Brewin Dolphin and Glide Utilities. Now in its seventh year, the Graduate Apprentice is a scheme unique to Birmingham, managed by Birmingham Future’s Talent Retention and Development committee and supported by Graduate Advantage. […]