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A sixth-form college has teamed up with a local charity to deliver lessons on self-esteem. City of Stoke-on-Trent Sixth-Form College partnered with the domestic abuse and social inclusion charity Arch to run its ‘Girl Power’ programme, which covered topics such as consent, life goals, self-confidence and relationships, for female students aged 16 to 19. Seven […]
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Private providers fared best out of the whole FE sector this week as three achieved ‘good’ ratings. There wasn’t any cause for celebration for colleges however, as two of them – Stoke-on-Trent and Moulton – were handed critical ‘requires improvement’ and ‘inadequate’ ratings respectively. Starting with the private providers: CSM Consulting Limited rose from ‘requires […]
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Stoke-on-Trent College learners have made the first-ever broadcast on a new national radio station. The team of creative media students brought their show to National College Radio on its launch day, which included a Q&A with their lecturer about his career, a movie review segment and a fast-request challenge featuring 21 song requests in 19 […]
A cash-strapped college will not explain why it paid thousands of pounds in severance to its former chief executive – even though she went straight into another job in charge of the college’s academy trust. Sarah Robinson led Stoke-on-Trent College until March last year, and that same month took a new role as full-time chief […]
The adult education budget is being used to cover the cost of emergency handouts to struggling colleges – causing outrage with the Department for Education. But in the same week that news broke of a £63 million AEB underspend, the government has repeatedly refused to say exactly how much is being used for these bailouts. […]
Twelve cash-strapped colleges received secret government bailouts totalling more than £11 million in December. It perhaps demonstrates a significant increase in the amount of money being dished out to struggling colleges – and has prompted demands for greater transparency. The figures were published by the Department for Education as part of a scheduled release detailing […]
Stoke-on-Trent College is almost £16 million in the red and received more than £500,000 in exceptional financial support in December alone, while it awaits the outcome of a £21.9 million application to the government restructuring facility. In the meantime, it is “reliant on the continued availability of bank loans (in respect of which covenants have […]
Ofsted has commended the new leadership team at a London college as it moves up to be rated ‘good’ while the grades of other providers fell. Richmond-upon-Thames College climbed from grade three to grade two in a report published on November 17 which congratulated the new principal, senior management team and governors for their success […]
Nearly 400 staff at one of the largest colleges in the country face an uncertain future while post-merger restructuring gets underway, a union has claimed. Nottingham College, a new body formed formed between New College Nottingham and Central College Nottingham, which finally merged on June 8 after a 10-month delay, is currently consulting on a […]
