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BIS effort to boost FE Commissioner team with more advisers draws ‘significant’ response

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has received a “significant” response in its effort to boost the five-strong team of advisers to FE Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured above from an FE Week cartoon story in November). The application process for the part-time roles, which pay a daily rate of £600, closed on July 11 […]

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Barbara Spicer to leave the Skills Funding Agency as hunt for permanent chief goes on

Skills Funding Agency interim boss Barbara Spicer has announced she is to step down in September as officials at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) continue the search for a permanent chief executive. Ms Spicer, who signed up to a nine-month contract for the post in November, is to set to become chief executive […]

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College’s pre-summer break job cuts announcement branded ‘cynical’ by UCU

Bosses at a college in the North East have come under fire from the University and College Union (UCU) for the “cynical” timing — just before the summer holidays — of a job cuts announcement. The UCU said that 119 staff at County Durham’s Stockton Riverside College were at risk amid plans to make lecturers reapply for their jobs at […]

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Looking deeper into the reshuffle at DfE and BIS

While those in FE and skills wait with bated breath to find out how new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan and Skills Minister Nick Boles view the sector, Alastair Thomson considers what can be expected of the Tory duo. Although the removal of Michael Gove as Education Secretary dominated much of the reshuffle coverage, a look […]

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Chair at inadequate-rated Stockport College tells board he is stepping down

The chair of governors at Stockport College, which was hit with an inadequate Ofsted rating last year before being placed in administered status by the FE Commissioner, is to step down amid concerns for the future of 150 jobs. Trevor Rees (pictured) told fellow college corporation board members on Thursday (July 10) that he would […]

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Sector welcomes new Skills Minister and Education Secretary as Cabinet-bound Matthew Hancock issues farewell message

The FE sector has been quick to have its say on today’s appointments of Nick Boles to Skills Minister and Nicky Morgan to Education Secretary. Former Skills Minister Matthew Hancock has been appointed as Business, Enterprise and Energy Minister and will attend Cabinet in his job (although not as a Cabinet post-holder), which is a new shared role at the […]

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Nicky Morgan replaces Gove at DfE as Cameron promotes women to top jobs

Loughborough MP Nicky Morgan, who has served in two Treasury positions, is the new Education Secretary following the departure of Michael Gove. Ms Morgan, aged 41, moved into Mr Gove’s job at the Department for Education (DfE) after his move to the office of Chief Whip in the House of Commons. London-born Ms Morgan, a […]

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Hancock to attend Cabinet in new business role as Cameron shakes up top team

Matthew Hancock has moved to a new shared role at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and Department for Energy and Climate Change. The MP for West Suffolk and former Skills and Enterprise Minister has been appointed as Business, Enterprise and Energy Minister, taking on the work of former Business Minister Michael Fallon, who […]

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Apprenticeship claim leads to another Tory and Labour fact spat

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock challenged Labour’s understanding of apprenticeship starts following a week in which the Opposition’s fact-checking has been called into question. During an Opposition day debate on vocational education in the House of Commons yesterday (Wednesday, July 9), Shadow Education Minister Tristram Hunt and Mr Hancock clashed over whether the overall number of […]

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