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Let’s consider the “hard choices” that will need to be made as the money runs out

At the AELP conference, delegates were polled on the various proposals to deal with increased level 2 starts, reports Mark Dawe Owen Farrell would have been proud of Secretary of State Damian Hinds’ kick for touch when Robert Halfon, chair of the Commons Education Select Committee, challenged him on Wednesday on whether the apprenticeship levy […]

Opinion

Employers say that staff like the flexibility of zero hours contracts. What rubbish…

A lack of job security in further, adult and prison education is making an army of workers mentally and physically ill – and forcing many to take on a second job to make ends meet, says Andrew Harden Staff on insecure contracts working in further, adult and prison education are holding down multiple jobs to […]

Opinion

Introducing… Julie Mills

From school drop-out to college chief executive, Julie Mills has not done things in a conventional way When Julie Mills was a 16-year-old in the early 1980s, she quit her sixth-form college and started working in a job centre where she dished out unemployment benefits. Now principal and chief executive of Milton Keynes College and […]

Profiles

‘I’m just too much sauce’: An exit interview with NUS president

Outgoing NUS president Shakira Martin talks Fraser Whieldon through her tumultuous two-year incumbency. The president of the National Union of Students has promised to continue to champion further education as she prepares to leave office. In a wide-ranging interview with FE Week, Shakira Martin said she didn’t regret telling opponents to “f**k off”, and has […]

News

College run by famous private hospital in the dock over ‘serious’ safety issues

A specialist college, run by a famous private hospital which has treated the likes of Kate Moss and Robbie Williams, has been hit with not one, but two “inadequate” grades after Ofsted found damning safeguarding issues. This week, the education watchdog has published reports into the residential and educational provision at Priory College Swindon, which […]

News

Proportion of colleges with over half of lecturers on casual contracts triples

The percentage of colleges employing over half of their teaching staff on casual contracts has tripled to 29 per cent, according to a new report. The University and College Union sent a freedom of information (FOI) request to all colleges and surveyed 789 staff working in colleges, adult education and prison education, which revealed many […]

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Government says they will fail Conservative manifesto commitment to 3 million apprenticeship starts

Education secretary Damian Hinds has admitted the government will miss its target of 3 million apprenticeship starts by next year. The target was set in the Conservatives’ 2015 election manifesto, and also included in the party’s 2017 manifesto. While appearing before the Commons Education Select Committee, its chair Robert Halfon repeatedly pressed Hinds on whether […]

News

Procured funding is unfair to independent training providers

Ian Ross explains why he has asked the education select committee to launch an inquiry into adult education budget funding It is now two years since the Education and Skills Funding Agency launched its procurement exercise for adult education budget (AEB) funding. While colleges and local authorities receive an annual automatic funding allocation, colleges can […]

Opinion

The move towards professionalising governance

More and more colleges are appointing directors of governance and are even paying their governors, as they look to professionalise these roles in the shadow of mergers and the insolvency regime. FE Week has taken closer look at how and why this practice has come about. The importance of governors has never been higher, with […]

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