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‘Newham College of Further Education’

Capital projects worth £400 million given green light

The government’s flagship college capital investment programme awards a further £400 million, but rising prices bring costs in to question.

News, Colleges

Revealed: 45 T Level colleges sharing £50m to refurbish teaching spaces

Forty-five colleges delivering the government’s flagship T Level qualifications from next year have won a slice of £50 million capital funding to prepare their facilities. Further education and sixth form colleges are being funded to, for example, build a mixed reality suite to teach coding, and a ward where students can practice health skills, the […]

News

Bumper year as 102 winners scoop silver Pearson Teaching Awards for 2021

Inspirational teachers, leaders, support staff, schools and colleges from across the country have been honoured today for their outstanding commitment to changing the lives of their students. A total of 102 winners have scooped silver awards in the annual Pearson National Teaching Awards. The names have been announced to coincide with national Thank a Teacher […]

News

Can the Centres for Excellence master the GCSE resit problem?

The Centres for Excellence in Maths are headed into their fourth year. With just two years of funding left, FE Week looks at how it all adds up “I’ve been in the sector 20 years, and this is the first big initiative on maths I’ve seen with FE in the title,” says Zia Rahman, head of maths […]

Feature, News

Profile: Asfa Sohail. Principal, Lewisham College

JL Dutaut meets a college principal for whom building resilience is a matter of building communities   How are you?  Good leaders ask this question often. The best stick around for the answer. But it’s their lot seldom to be asked the question themselves.  It’s one of the changes Lewisham College principal Asfa Sohail has noticed among her staff and […]

Profiles

Why further and higher education aren’t a zero-sum-game

To truly level up the country, instead of arbitrary targets we need a joined-up system of higher and further education where every student has access to the courses that are right for them, writes Andy Norman After two decades of steady progress, Tony Blair’s target for 50 per cent of young people to participate in […]

Opinion

Incorporation: The end of an experiment or the end of a myth?

Ministers are considering taking colleges back into government control, as revealed last week in these pages. But, Jess Staufenberg asks, was incorporation ever what it was cracked up to be? There is a rising anxiety in the heart of government about the lack of intervention powers when colleges are failing. That’s what FE Week reported, in an […]

Feature, News

Gowland comes out of retirement to be temp boss at London college

The principal of a London college has been replaced by a retired further education leader ahead of an FE Commissioner visit. Waltham Forest College has told FE Week Joy Kettyle stepped down with immediate effect in February after two years at the helm “due to personal circumstances”, and former Newham College principal Di Gowland (pictured) […]

News

Sixth form college staff to strike against 16-19 funding cuts in lead up to the budget

“Angry” sixth form college staff will hit the picket line tomorrow as they step up their protest against government funding cuts in the build up to next month’s budget. National Education Union members from 34 sixth form colleges will be taking strike action. Two further strikes will take place 27 February and 10 March. The […]

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