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Further education makes ‘500 most influential people list’ as 157 Group boss Dr Lynne Sedgmore is named by Debrett’s

The FE sector has had one of its key spokespeople recognised on the 2015 Debrett’s 500 list of the most influential people. Dr Lynne Sedgmore CBE, executive director of the 157 Group, has been named as one of the UK’s most influential people in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 list, which was first published in yesterday’s Sunday […]

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Certificate conman gets 80 hours’ unpaid work

An online conman who sold fake City & Guilds and OCR certificates from his Darlington cul-de-sac home has been sentenced 80 hours of unpaid work. Edexcel, AQA and Ofqual logos were also used by Martin Bowman as he produced the counterfeit paperwork. However, Darlington Magistrates’ Court heard that most of his customers asked for refunds […]

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Local authority one of just three to win a glowing Ofsted report

A Midland council is celebrating after its adult education provision was rated outstanding across the board by Ofsted. Wolverhampton Adult Education Service (pictured) was given a grade one rating in all headline areas following inspection last month. And staff at Stockport College also received good news from Ofsted this month with inspectors having found it […]

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Yvonne Fovargue, junior shadow minister

The first thing many people entering the FE and skills sector notice is the number of acronyms. Telling your EFA (Education Funding Agency) from your ETF (Education and Training Foundation) can be daunting, but new Junior Shadow Education Minister Yvonne Fovargue, who has previously served time shadowing defence, isn’t fazed. “You can’t beat the strange […]

Profiles

Logistics skills council ‘offered solutions to non-existent problems’

Michael Woodgate considers what went wrong for Skills for Logistics (SfL) with the sector skills council having this month announced it was set to close. So farewell then, SfL. It prospered when government funding was plentiful, but its inability to convince people to pay for its services proved fatal. At the beginning, SfL’s reason for […]

Opinion

Edition 124: Sue Rimmer, Mike Hopkins, Sean Harford, Alan Birks, Michele Sutton and Norman Cave

South Thames College principal Sue Rimmer has been elected the new chair of the Principals’ Professional Council (PPC). She takes over from Mike Hopkins, who stepped down last month after his chief executive role at the Gateshead and Middlesbrough College Confederation was made redundant when it was split up after just over 12 months. He […]

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A4e staff ripped off DWP welfare-to-work scheme with false clients and forged paper trails

Four A4e workers forged paperwork to make fraudulent claims against a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) welfare-to-work scheme, a jury has ruled. Ines Cano-Uribe, aged 38, of Madrid, Spain, Matthew Hannigan-Train, 30, of Bristol, and Hayley Wilson, 27, of Milton Keynes, were yesterday found guilty of conspiring to make false instruments on the Inspire […]

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Counting the cost of Labour’s plans to reform apprenticeships

Labour’s apprenticeship proposals could cost taxpayers as much as £11.7bn over the course of the next parliament, according to Treasury research. Costings of 28 Labour policies were published on Monday (January 5), including three on apprenticeships and a further four affecting the wider FE and skills sector (see below). They suggested Labour’s spending plans would […]

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Leadership issues under the Fetl research spotlight

The Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) has announced the four winners in its first wave of fellowship grants to fund research. Alex Day MBE, Ruth Allen, Tim Ward and Ann Creed will get up to £40,000 each to fund their work. They will be looking at attitudes to risk in leadership of sixth form […]

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