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‘Jobs’
Former student Samantha Harvey has returned to Derby College as the first head gardener at its Broomfield Hall land-based studies campus. Ms Harvey’s role will involve supporting students in work experience programmes and leading work to open the grounds to more visitors. She studied horticulture at the college 15 years ago, before training and working […]
Movers and Shakers
When Find a Future deputy chair David Cragg is asked how long he has been working in FE he cracks a smile and says “110 years.” It’s an exaggeration, of course, as he was born in 1946 and became involved in FE in the late 1960s with a general studies teacher post at Warley College […]
Profiles
Judith Doyle inherited a grade three Ofsted-rated college in August 2013 and within eight months of her appointment inspectors dished out the same result again. But, picking up the gauntlet, she instigated a raft of changes that in July saw the college rated as outstanding. I was proud and delighted to be made principal at […]
Opinion
When news broke last week that nine people had been killed by a gunman at Umpqua Community College, in Oregon, Iain Mackinnon’s thoughts jumped to the time he spent there a decade ago. By chance I’ve visited Umpqua Community College in Oregon, scene of the latest mass killings. This is no inner city madhouse where […]
A more joined-up approach to opposition FE policy was signalled at the Labour Party conference as Angela Eagle and Lucy Powell both pledged to fight cuts to the sector. The Shadow Business Secretary and Shadow Education Secretary both named FE as a key battleground in their speeches in Brighton as they criticised cuts to post-16 […]
News
The 2015 FE Week and Policy Consortium survey was published on the brink of a general election. Six months on and the new government has introduced a flood of reforms affecting the FE and skills sector. But far from showing improvement, this follow-up survey, in which the Policy Consortium revisited 32 of the initial survey […]
The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has issued a list of more than 50 colleges that have looked to shed jobs in the last year as it warned of the effect “savage and unrelenting government cuts” were having on the sector. Dr Mary Bousted (pictured), ATL general secretary, said that budget cuts over the […]
Ofqual’s replacement for the Qualifications Credit Framework (QCF) will give awarding organisations more freedom to review and develop their qualifications, the watchdog’s vocational qualifications boss has said. The new Regulated Qualifications Framework (RQF), which comes into force on October 1, will take away the rules and structure of the QCF and instead focus on outcomes. Speaking […]
The government’s Careers and Enterprise Company was today due to announce the roll-out of its piloted system of ‘enterprise advisers’ to go into colleges and schools. The plan, announced in July, is for all 39 local enterprise partnerships (Leps) across the country to employ ‘enterprise co-ordinators’ to work with the advisers — with 28 Leps […]
