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Why every college Principal should join the Twittersphere

There are now over 100 million active Twitter users – but is your college principal one of them? If not, should they be, and so for that matter should the rest of the senior management team. “But isn’t that the job of the marketing team?” I hear some people cry. Others might answer the Twitter […]

FE Week mini-mascot (Edition 14)

Follow the adventures of FE Week’s biggest and smallest fan! Mostly this week I have been wrapping up warm” And also you can follow our FE Week mini-mascot on Twitter @daniellinford

Flexible learning delivery

In my previous life as a college tutor, January was always the month of the annual student awards evening. Each year we would dutifully send in our list of worthy candidates. The brief was fairly succinct: nominees must have been enthusiastic learners who attended fully and punctiliously. They must of course have produced work of […]

New Challenges, New Chances, not so New Year

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) may have had their marketing budgets frozen, but this has not stopped them announcing a new strapline for further education. But what does it really mean? Last year the BIS strapline for FE was New Horizons, and they have gone one better this year, with a strapline […]

David Hughes, CEO, NIACE

David Hughes said he never had any “grand career plans.” In fact, the chief executive of NIACE, who has also had top jobs at the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and Skills Funding Agency (SFA), could easily have ended up in the financial sector. Raised on a council estate in north London, where “everyone left […]

Cash boost for work experience

Colleges in areas with high proportions of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) have been given a cash boost. The Department for Education (DfE) has revealed that £4.5 million will be given to 25 handpicked colleges in the next two years – from now to September 2013 – to give more 16-19 […]

FE Week Investigates: Further education leaders honoured

A former college principal has spoken exclusively to FE Week of his shock after being chosen to receive a Knighthood for his services to further education (FE). Geoff Hall, who left New College Nottingham (NCN) after seven and a half years in May 2010, is one of just 27 people to receive the order in […]

Apprenticeship review targets 45 providers

More than 40 colleges and training providers are being investigated as part of the review into short duration apprenticeships. “We are working with the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) to consider the outcomes of each review of short provision,” a National Apprenticeship Service (NAS) spokesperson said. “Action is already in hand to investigate cases where there […]

Eight sentenced – including six jailed – over £500,000 college fraud

Eight fraudsters have been sentenced, including six jailed, for conning colleges out of more than half-a-million-pounds. The sentences, handed out at Nottingham Crown Court on Tuesday, signalled the end a three-year in investigation, which centred on two companies – Training Options UK Ltd (TOUK) and FE Options Ltd. It found staff forged documents to falsely […]