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UCU hopes for end of competition with review

The University and College Union (UCU) has said it hopes FE Commissioner Dr David Collins’ city-wide review of vocational education under way in Nottingham could end “wasteful and unnecessary” competition between local providers. The review, revealed exclusively by feweek.co.uk this month, could lead to the merger of two of the city’s biggest colleges, New College […]

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Apprenticeships and careers advice key to Lib Dem youth unemployment plans, Clegg to reveal

Apprenticeships and one-on-one careers advice will play a key role in Liberal Democrat plans to cut youth unemployment to “the lowest levels since records began”, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will announce today. The Liberal Democrat leader is set to announce his ambition to get an extra 100,000 young adults into work, education or training. […]

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Third of Intraining workforce hit as 450 jobs set for axe

More than a third of the workforce at NCG’s 1,200-worker Intraining division were today facing redundancy following one of the biggest job loss announcements to have hit the sector. The loss of a major Department for Work and Pensions training contract and “uncertainty” over the renewal of European Social Fund (ESF) programmes, along with fewer […]

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Event aims to boost female tech skills

Greater collaboration between FE and business could help to encourage more women into digital industries, according to a report published by the Women in Technology project. The findings of the report, produced by Coralesce with funding from the Education and Training Foundation, were revealed at the Women in Technology conference on Tuesday (April 21). The […]

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Euro ‘funding gap’ warning of closures and staff lay-offs

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has warned that a “funding gap” for schemes backed by European Social Fund (ESF) cash could force providers to lay-off staff and close training centres. Stewart Segal (pictured), AELP chief executive, said “we are almost certainly looking at a funding gap” between when a number of ESF […]

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Sam Parrett, principal, Bromley College

As her heart raced, her mouth dried and her imagination ran wild with the tragic scenes that could lay ahead after reports of a gunman on campus, Sam Parrett was calmed by the wise words of her then-principal. “No matter how much you’re panicking inside, all the people in that building are panicking much, much […]

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Secret Principal

The principal of a large and well-established FE college writes about life at the top — the worries, the hopes, the people and the issues they have to deal with every day. Is there a general election? Whither education, education and education? Is there a general election? Whither education, education and education?Well, we’re all reeling […]

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Edition 135: John Spindler, Martin Sim & David Goddard

Salford City College this month came under the leadership of a new principal. John Spindler left his deputy principal role at Rochdale’s Hopwood Hall College to begin his new post at the grade two-rated college from the start of term. He said: “I am delighted to be joining Salford City College to lead one of […]

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Birmingham Met to axe up to 250 jobs

As many as 250 jobs are set to be axed at Birmingham Metropolitan College — a move branded “catastrophic” by unions. College bosses have blamed government funding cuts after staff at the college, which is one of the largest in the West Midlands following a 2013 merger with Stourbridge College, were told 200 to 250 […]

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