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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 392

Katy Quinn Principal & CEO,City of PortsmouthCollege Start date: Summer term Previous Job: Principal & CEO,Strode College Interesting fact: In her younger years, Katy played County netball for Somerset. Gary Potts Principal, Northumberland College, Education Partnership North East Start date: August 2022 Previous Job: Group Vice Principal – Business, Innovation and Partnerships,Education Training Collective Interesting […]

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 386

Jenny Jarvis Interim chief executive officer, Education and Training Foundation Start date: April 2022 Previous Job: Deputy CEO, Education and Training Foundation Interesting fact: As part of her commitment to lifelong learning, Jenny attended the Gordon Cook Conversations, as well as being a Windsor leadership fellow. Jonathan Porter Technical Advisor for Engineering, City and Guilds […]

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 385

Jenny Craig Principal & CEO, Buckinghamshire Collge Group Start date: July 2022 Previous Job: Deputy Principal, Abingdon & Witney College Interesting fact: Jenny won the West Yorkshire cycling proficiency championship when she was just 11 years old Rebecca Gater Principal & CEO, Solihull College and University Centre Start date: September 2022 Previous Job: Vice Principal- […]

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 383

Judith Feline Trustee, Prisoners’ Education Trust Start date: April 2022 Previous Job: Governor, HMP Maidstone Interesting fact: When Judith was working in Bedfordshire she secured a £2.4 million Millennium Lottery Grant to create the Forest Centre – a country park visitor and conference centre Dan Baxter Business Manager, Education Practice, Peridot Partners Start date: April […]

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 379

Emma Schofield Vice chair, Nelson and Colne College Group Start date: February 2022 Concurrent Job: Deputy director HR & organisational development, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Interesting fact: Once summited Rainbow Mountain in Peru and practiced yoga at 5,200m Charlotte Bosworth Vice chair, Walsall College Start date: December 2021 Concurrent Job: Managing Director, Innovate Awarding […]

AELP National Conference 2018

Excitement has been building ahead of the speech from the skills minister, Anne Milton, at AELP’s annual conference. There was a chance the speech would be used to announce a dramatic policy U-turn: scrapping non-levy employer contributions for at least some apprenticeships. And it has been many years since I can remember an FE minister […]

Here’s how English skills policy needs to change

The CBI believes the government is on the wrong track with its current skills system. Neil Carberry sets out the ways in which he would change things People are fond of maligning English skills policy, but there is no truth in the idea that it is lacking. It can’t be – a new one arrives […]

Movers and Shakers: Edition 247

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving Paul Rolfe, Commerical director, Chichester College Group Start Date: May 2018 Previous Job: Managing director, Highbury Commercial, Highbury College Interesting Fact: Paul is a keen gym goer and has recently discovered spin classes. ____________________________________________ Nathan Runnicles, Chief financial officer, QA Group Start date: May 2018 Previous […]

Cycling-themed five-course dinner served at college raises money for cancer charity

A five-course fundraising dinner has been put on by catering students at Stratford-upon-Avon College to help rehabilitate children fighting cancer. Catering students and their lecturer, cycling enthusiast Dave Saul, themed the dinner around the Race Across America challenge, which sees cyclists ride through 12 states. Dishes on offer at the event, hosted at the college’s […]