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Why it pays to be Business Intelligent

In this time of economic turbulence, Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives stand out for their potential to improve overall college performance for a relatively modest investment compared with other enterprise level IT projects. This is achieved through better use of a key college asset: its data. It is this information that holds the key to future […]

Annual Assocation of Learning Providers conference write-up

At the Association of Learning Providers (ALP) annual conference in London, the Chairman Martin Dunford announced that the representative body would be renamed as the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) with immediate effect. The name-change, which was well received by delegates at the conference, will now be put to members for formal ratification […]

NCN students give it All that Jazz

Start the car I know a whoopee spot, where the gin is cold but the piano’s hot. It’s just a noisy hall where there’s a nightly brawl… New College Nottingham (ncn) Level 3 Musical Theatre and Dance students performed All that Fosse – a selection of ensemble pieces from musical theatre shows and films, originally […]

Can colleges profit from the new HE market?

At first sight the HE White Paper looks like good news for FE providers of HE. It speaks warmly of their distinctive contribution to higher education, highlights them in its strategy for diversifying the range of providers and recognises the difficulties they face in competing with universities when the latter still validate their degrees and […]

Cornwall College works with green power to embed STEM subjects early

One thousand school children from 60 schools gathered at Newquay Cornwall Airport this week to race electric cars that the pupils designed and built from scratch. The annual South West Regional Heat of the Greenpower schools electric car races, organised by Cornwall College, is the culmination of months of hard work from primary and secondary […]

Potential ‘dragons’ at Chichester College

Chichester College is calling all young entrepreneurs to “Pitch for a Place” at their new Peter Jones Enterprise Academy. The event will take place on 4th July at 4:30pm, and the college is encouraging young people from all over Sussex to ‘come and present’ their potential business ideas to a panel. If you think you […]

Harlow College student helps launch the new NUS card for apprentices

A society for apprentices with a NUS discount card for members has been launched to boost the status of skills-based training. The Apprentice Society and its membership card are being billed as a skills-based equivalent to the National Union of Students and its NUS Extra card. Skills minister John Hayes, Robert Halfon MP and apprentice […]

Position yourself to further your career

Jobs are getting thinner on the ground in FE as colleges across the country are making redundancies. Yet, no matter what sector you work in there is a limitless amount of generic information out there on how to further or even protect your career. The obvious advice can often be overlooked but it’s often the […]

Quality on the bench

For the past ten years I have been working for a private training company offering apprenticeships. Previous to this, I spent 14 years in an FE College leaving after reaching the dizzy heights of Director of Studies. Transferring a college based quality system to work based training has been an interesting experience. We have achieved […]