Author: Nick Linford

Further education bosses have welcomed the appointment of Lord Lingfield (pictured) as chair of the group that will give out chartered status, a new quality indicator for the sector. Skills Minister Matthew Hancock asked the Tory peer to take on the role as he had the “right background and expertise”, the Department for Business, Innovation […]

Providers have been invited to open days to find out about taking on the business of a struggling college being broken up following a failed merger. Two events will be held at K College, in Kent, for organisations looking to take over its provision. The possible break-up of provision comes after the college, which was formed of […]

The post of Skills Funding Agency advisory board chair is up for grabs. The agency, which manages an annual budget of more than £3bn, is advertising the three-year unpaid job on its website and is expecting the successful candidate to be in place in around two months’ time. They will head a board made up […]

Two Midland colleges are set to merge less than two months after Skills Minister Matthew Hancock told them to go back to the drawing board with the plans. Proposals by Stourbridge and Birmingham Metropolitan to form “one of the largest and most significant further education providers in the country” have been okayed by governors. They […]

Third poor inspection for City College Coventry’s Paul Taylor The principal of the latest big city college to be labelled inadequate by Ofsted has told of his determination to stay on and “put things right”. After 16 years in the job and two previous poor inspections, Paul Taylor, at City College Coventry, was hit with […]