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Edition 97: Garry Phillips, Karen Redhead and Albery Croney

A permanent principal is to replace Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College interim boss Dr Elaine McMahon CBE. Garry Phillips , currently principal at New College Telford, takes over from July. “It is an exciting time for the college and the sector and I am looking forward to working with colleagues and stakeholders in the […]

Movers and Shakers

College Job Shop anniversary

Skills Minister Matthew Hancock congratulated Walsall College on doing a good job as its Job Shop celebrated its first anniversary. Since April 2013, the Job Shop has helped 642 apprentices to find jobs, offered training to nearly 300 job seekers and given 144 people pre-redundancy support. Mr Hancock said: “There is no doubt that many […]

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How Uncle Sam is pioneering apprenticeships

The UK often looks to Europe for inspiration on apprenticeships. Tom Bewick suggests a glance across the pond instead. American apprenticeships are perhaps an unlikely example of a world-class system in the making. Yet, in his state of the union address in January, President Barack Obama said he wanted, “more on-the-job training, and more apprenticeships […]

Opinion

Software and Leps in Spicer update

Skills Funding Agency (SFA) interim chief executive Barbara Spicer has written to contractors with an update on a range of sector issues, including funding software and local enterprise partnerships (Leps). Ms Spicer said “final adjustments” were being made to the troubled new Funding Information System (Fis). And she thanked providers for their “patience” over the eight-month […]

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College staff and students lobby Parliament over FE funding cuts

College staff were joined by students as they conducted a mass lobby of Parliament over the future of FE funding. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) were joined by students, including 30 from Tower Hamlets College (pictured), for the action on Wednesday. The UCU organised meetings with MPs to raise its concerns about […]

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Hancock unveils 77 new tech levels

Skills minister Matthew Hancock used a speech to a jobs and skills forum in London to announce 77 new tech level qualifications, taking the total on offer to 217. Mr Hancock addressed delegates at the European Jobs and Skills Summit —which was organised by the Institute for Public Policy Research and JP Morgan, and held […]

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Mixed reaction to new requirement for learner outcome data in individual learner records

Sector leaders gave a mixed welcome to new requirements for providers to collect data on what happens to learners after they finish courses. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) has published a second version of its guide to data collection requirements for individual learner records (ILR) for 2014/15. It includes a new requirement to complete five […]

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Lambeth College staff to strike over hours and pay

Staff at Lambeth College will go on strike tomorrow (Tuesday) over proposed changes to pay and conditions, the University and College Union (UCU) has announced. It comes after 95 per cent of staff who voted in a ballot backed industrial action following a dispute over plans to change contracts, and in particular, clauses about working […]

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What has happened to 14 to 19 vocational education?

Three years ago this month, the Wolf Report on the future of vocational education for 14 to 19-year-olds was heralded as a vehicle for radical change in the FE sector, writes Freddie Whittaker. Professor Alison Wolf’s 27 recommendations called for a huge shake-up in careers advice and qualifications, among other things, and her ideas were […]

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