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Learning to love the local when it comes to adult education provision

Are we really keen to see London, Manchester, Birmingham and the West Midlands with no powers over education and skills spending, asks Ewart Keep What are we to make of the apparent outrage at the Greater London Authority spending an extra £40k on a consultant to support an AEB consultation exercise, and at Alison Wolf’s […]

Opinion

How does reserving unskilled jobs for UK workers benefit them, or the FE sector?

The proposed “points-based” immigration system has a number of seemingly ill-thought through consequences, argues Mick Fletcher Many in colleges may have drawn some hope from the increasing number of senior figures calling for extra investment in FE, specifically in order to train UK workers now that we have left the EU. We certainly need more […]

Opinion

Apprenticeships quango adviser quits after breaking advertising rules

An adviser to the government’s apprenticeship quango has quit after FE Week found he had set up an assessment company and then broke official advertising rules. Lee Allsup, one of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IfATE) route panel members, left the role this week and his new end-point assessment organisation (EPAO) has stopped […]

News

Derailed: HS2 college face Ofsted grade 4 after dropping legal challenge

The troubled National College for HS2 has abandoned its attempts to stop Ofsted publishing a grade four report, after dispatching lawyers to gag the watchdog in the High Court. FE Week understands the college has sought a consent order – used where the parties have reached an agreement – from the judge to drop the […]

News

MP to meet FE Commissioner over ‘disappointing’ college closure plans

An MP has hit out at the proposed closure of a college in his constituency and is set to meet with FE Commissioner Richard Atkins to demand it stays open. The RNN Group is planning to shut its “under-utilised” campus in Dinnington by July. At least 40 full-time jobs are expected to be lost and […]

News

Crisis hit HS2 college hires lawyers to gag Ofsted

The crisis hit National College for HS2 has hired a team of lawyers to stop Ofsted publishing a highly critical report, FE Week can reveal. The government-backed flagship college launched in 2017 but has struggled to recruit learners and this time last year received close to £5 million in a bailout deal to keep the […]

News

Minister warns college bosses it could go bust next year

A minister has warned a college that it could go bust next year if learner losses are not reversed and the sale of a campus is “delayed further”. Lord Agnew wrote to Warrington and Vale Royal College chair Mervyn Ward last month with the concern following intervention from the FE Commissioner Richard Atkins which found […]

News

Troubled college to tumble two Ofsted grades from ‘outstanding’

A college that is currently investigating an unexpected £6 million deficit is set to be downgraded by Ofsted from ‘outstanding’ to ‘requires improvement’. It is the latest blow to Gateshead College, which has also seen its high-profile principal and chair quit in recent weeks. The college announced to staff last Friday that it received a […]

News

Changing perceptions, raising aspirations, making improvements

The new secretary of state for education introduces National Aprenticeship Week with his vision for how the sector will change on his watch. His focus will be on challenging misconceptions about apprenticeships, tightening oversight of providers, and encouraging headteachers to promote the apprenticeship concept to their students I’ve enjoyed so many great “firsts” since becoming […]

Opinion