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Exclusive: AoC India to close after 25 colleges quit

A college partnership network set up by the Association of Colleges to provide UK vocational education and training programmes to India is to close after losing over three quarters of its members. AoC India was established in 2012 as a partnership of 33 FE colleges, but after being left with just eight members this year […]

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Teaching ban for inappropriate messages to college student

An indefinite teaching ban has been imposed on a former Bournemouth and Poole College lecturer — after he was found to have sent inappropriate messages to a young female student. Michael Browne was employed by the college, in Dorset, from September 2009 until July last year, as an applied ICT programme leader and teacher. He […]

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Furious colleges and training providers slam 16-18 growth funding shortfall

Angry providers have slammed the government’s failure to fully fund all their apprenticeship growth requests as “appalling” and “destabilising”. The comments were made by respondents to an FE Week survey carried out in the wake of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) announcement on 5 February explaining how the money would be portioned out. The funding […]

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An Audi mural challenge for students

Graphic design learners from Bournemouth & Poole College have risen to an unusual artistic challenge to create a giant mural for a new Audi dealership. The design, created by a team of a dozen students and two tutors, transformed the dull security hoardings shielding a £14.5m building project for the Audi auto sales and car […]

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Movers and shakers: edition 154

City College Brighton and Hove will be hoping for a period of stability following the completion of its senior management team revamp with Sharon Collett joining as principal. She joins chief executive Nick Juba and chief operating officer Jon Rollings who have been in post since September. The new appointments come after FE Commissioner Dr […]

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Asbestos dust, dangerous workshop lathes and repetitive strain injury among issues prompting more than 20 Health and Safety Executive notices

More than 20 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) notices have been served to FE colleges in the last five years with issues ranging from dangerous workshop lathes to concerns over asbestos dust and repetitive strain injury, FE Week can reveal. Three notices have given to colleges so far this calendar year, with a further nine […]

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Edition 126: Simon Andrews, Diane Grannell and Lynne Sedgmore

Governors at 7,000-learner Stockport College have announced that Simon Andrews is to join them as their new principal. He is currently in charge at 5,700-learner Macclesfield College and is due to join Stockport, which recently improved from an Ofsted grade four to three rating under interim principal Ian Clinton, in April. Mr Andrews became Macclesfield […]

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Masochism and trust in the board and principal relationship

Governors bring a wealth of disparate expertise to the board table, but can sometimes fall short when it comes to their college knowledge. Lawrence Vincent provides 10 key questions governors should be armed with at their next meeting with the principal. College governing bodies have a responsibility to ensure that the core function of the […]

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Colleges should lead skills gap charge

Colleges need to “face up to their responsibilities” and make FE the sector one that “gets people into work,” a principal has said. Laurence Vincent, chair of The Mindset Group and principal of Bournemouth and Poole College, outlined his “brave new vision” for the role of colleges in terms of learner employability as he spoke […]

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