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ERS: give credit where it is due

ERS practitioners can now have their skills and expertise properly acknowledged. About time too, says Helen Richardson FE colleges are playing a greater role in the delivery of employment related services (ERS) to jobseekers claiming Jobcentre Plus benefits (more than 200,000 unemployed people undertake education or training at colleges). The introduction of a single adult […]

Share and share alike

City & Guilds’ Content Exchange will share digital learning materials, saving time for tutors and students who spend hours looking for quality resources, says Kirstie Donnelly Technology has connected the world. Young people who have grown up with mobile phones and laptops can’t imagine a world without it. About 75 per cent of 16 to […]

Maple: the sweet smell of success

A new partnership of sixth-form colleges is determined to pursue high performance, innovation and creativity, says Simon Jarvis Ten of the country’s leading sixth-form colleges have formed a partnership The Maple Group, to maintain and promote outstanding teaching and learning. Group colleges make a significant contribution to the nation’s economy: together, more than 20,000 youngsters […]

Back to basics or down to specifics?

As the government seeks to define vocational qualifications and strip out those that are not ‘rigorous’, Lynne Sedgmore reflects on the purpose of vocational education and training We sometimes get so caught up in the detail of the latest initiative that obvious contradictions fail to leap out at us. The publication of It’s About Work…, […]

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All sweet at FE Week

As if gold members weren’t a lucky enough lot with discounted entry to Lsect events, look at the kind of treats they get as well. Obviously, they’re all sweet enough as it is, but some Haribo Starmix always spark a smile. And now, week in week out, they’ll be receiving similar confectionery surprises along with […]

Sleep-out in icy weather raises funds for Crisis

A sponsored sleep-out in a Hampshire college raised more than £1,000 for Crisis. the national charity for single homeless people. Thirty students and four staff at Barton Peveril College spent the night on campus outside in sub-zero temperatures with only boxes, bags and blankets for shelter. The event was organised by the student committee. Committee […]

We keep it simple – but it works

Rochdale Sixth Form College was graded outstanding in its first Ofsted inspection. It’s good news in a borough that doesn’t always make the headlines for the right reasons, says Julian Appleyard Rochdale Sixth Form College opened in September 2010 to address underachievement in the area. For many years young people had opted to travel out […]