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‘We need stability of policy, longer term contract commitments and more realistic funding’

The people have voted, the government has been formed and now the policies must be enacted. Martin Dunford outlines how the skills sector should respond to the challenges ahead, and how sector funding must also be looked at. The AELP national conference is the first opportunity we have had to debate the plans that the […]

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Leadership issues on the agenda for FE women

Women from across the FE and skills sector were at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills conference centre in Westminster on June 17 for the WLN annual conference. Sara Mogel gives an overview of the event. Women leaders in FE were told by Anne Doyle, journalist, author and former director at Ford Motor Company, […]

Secret Principal

The principal of a large and well-established FE college writes about life at the top — the worries, the hopes, the people and the issues they have to deal with every day. Wake up and smell the coffee Professor Alison Wolf, architect of the government’s vocational education plans and labour market guru, says cuts to […]

Skills Minister’s questions run deep

Skills Minister Nick Boles has posed a series of hard questions for the future of FE and skills. But for Lynne Sedgmore they raise just as many issues about the minister and the government as they do of the sector. It is unusual for a Minister to be as clear as Nick Boles has been […]

Richard Spencer, head of science, Middlesbrough College

It all started with coffee for globe-trotting college tutor Dr Richard Spencer, whose acclaimed classroom approach has seen him meet Pope Francis and former US President Bill Clinton. The Middlesbrough College head of science has been to The Vatican, in Rome, and Dubai having been listed as the only European teacher named in February’s 10-strong […]

Long-time lecturer Anne sets sail for new life

A long-serving lecturer is setting sail for a new life after bidding students and colleagues farewell, writes Billy Camden. After two decades of loyal service at Suffolk New College, Anne Kidd is cruising into retirement by swapping the classroom for the deep blue sea. The 60-year-old joined the Ipswich college in August 1995 and was […]

Edition 143: Nick Juba, Laraine Moody & Alexis Smith

Former European Commission consultant Nick Juba is to become the new chief executive of cash-strapped City College Brighton and Hove. He takes over at the 6,000-learner college from interim chief executive Monica Box, who is also interim principal, on September 21. His appointment comes after FE Commissioner Dr David Collins was sent in with the […]