Edition 140: Lise-Lotte Olsen, Rebecca Kay, Natalie Wilson & Rayna Crawford-Jones

Chelmford’s Writtle College has a new governors’ board chair in Julia Smith. Ms Smith, who has served as a...

College issues exams blanket ban on wristwatches over concerns about ‘hard to identify’ internet-enabled smart watches

An East Midlands college has issued an exams blanket ban on wristwatches over fears learners could cheat using powerful...

Key founder college quits Gazelle amid membership review

Gazelle has been dealt a major blow with news that a key founding college has announced it is “no...

Pearson stops second distance provision linked to AL

Pearson has stopped registering higher national certificate (HNC) distance learning students at a second general FE college delivering the...

Skills Competitions Raising Standards

Ofsted scrapping of graded lesson observations ‘right’

Ofsted’s decision to scrap graded lesson observations for FE inspections has been described as the “right way to go”...

FE Commissioner praise following revisits

The FE Commissioner has praised progress being made at two colleges following revisits. Dr David Collins checked up on...

Government reviews FE scrutiny info

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has launched a review of the data it publishes on FE...