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The Lep Network underwent something of a revamp earlier this year, with Alex Pratt stepping in as chair of its newly created management board. Mr Pratt outlines his views on Leps and their relationship with FE and skills Leps are a bold attempt to arrest the long term trend of economic centralisation by rebalancing strategic […]
Opinion
Desperate learners at Lambeth College have called on union leaders and college bosses to get back around the negotiating table amid fears an increasingly bitter strike is putting university futures at risk. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) started their indefinite industrial action on Tuesday, June 3, over contracts which offer less annual […]
News
The first two Career Colleges have been announced, while plans for at least a further 10 next year — including four from Birmingham Metropolitan College (BMet) — were also revealed. Hugh Baird College, in Bootle, Merseyside, and Oldham College were both granted licenses from the Career Colleges Trust to open in September. They will run […]
Walking the long way home after passing just two O-levels, it never occurred to Louise Morritt that she might spend decades working in the sector that was about to save her education. The chief executive of One Awards, the new name for Open College Network North East Region (OCNNER), says she thrived in the FE […]
Profiles
Greater integration of government policy on youth unemployment is among the priorities for the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) as outlined in its updated manifesto, released today. The document, out on the first day of the AELP’s two-day annual conference in London, takes stock of priorities and outlines key areas of sector debate […]
With the economy growing, the number of people in a job rose 283,000 in just the last three months – that’s the largest quarterly rise since records began in 1971. This means there are a record 30.43m people now in work and the unemployment rate has fallen again to a new five-year low. Youth unemployment, […]
The AELP does a remarkable job of bringing together an otherwise disparate group of providers. It has created unity and delivered joined-up thinking in a sector that’s been battered and broken over the last few years — a sector that has been completely deprived of anything close to a long-term strategy from this government. At […]
Young people want more hands-on experience in deciding what career path they should take, according to new research from the Association of Colleges (AoC). Students aged 11 to 16 who took part in workshops run by AoC and The Skills Show called for access to more detailed guidance and more opportunity take part in Have-A-Go sessions, […]
A Greater Manchester college could be forced to make up to 150 redundancies after it was ordered to balance the books by the FE Commissioner. Dr David Collins, pictured left, placed Stockport College into administered status after he was sent in following a grade four “inadequate” Ofsted inspection grading in November. He said it “had to […]
