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14 April 2026

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Diversity in Challenging Times

An inspiring conference succeeds through collaboration Partnership working at its best was evident recently when the Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) and the Network for Black Professionals (NBP) delivered yet another successful conference – Diversity in Challenging Times. Following on from last year’s joint event, the WLN and the NBP designed and created another inspirational and […]

FE Week Crossacronym

Across 1. A ‘voice of further education’ since 1996 3. Shane Chowen led to campaign to keep it 5. Quickly scrapped whilst waiting for Wolf 7. Prepare to be inspected, at all times 10. £31m in 2011-12 via Skills Funding Agency 11. Australian import based on GTA model 12. The opposite would be in work […]

What has DWP done for the college sector?

Skills conditionality is, if anything, a greater threat to classroom-based adult learning than the removal of fee remission for those poor benighted souls on “inactive” benefits. As the outline of the programme stands at the moment, Department for Work and Pension (DWP) staff appear to be able to tell us what classes to run and […]