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Growing up in England’s industrial heartland of the Midlands, Jaine Bolton’s childhood dream was a simple one — to become an engineer. But, having left school aged 16 with hopes of winning an apprenticeship, her world came crashing down as one potential employer told her bluntly: “We don’t recruit women.” The rejection, and growing up […]
Profiles
A Kent college has become the first provider to get a government warning that could lead to the withdrawal of Skills Funding Agency cash, FE Week can reveal. Financial worries were said to be behind an agency official notice of concern, issued to K College in August. The college was allocated £11.7m for the 2012/13 […]
News
While searching for biographical information about David Igoe to prepare for the interview I reap little reward. Google coughs up only a few facts – the name of his secondary school, his degree in education management at the University of Bristol and his job as principal at Cadbury Sixth Form College. At Igoe’s office in […]
More than 500 jobs have been saved by a college and a training provider after another training provider behind around 10,000 apprenticeships across the country went into administration. Liverpool Community College teamed up with Derbyshire-based provider 3AAA to buy the “majority” of business from First4Skills. The Ellesmere Port firm had been allocated £19.8m by the Skills […]
Caption: Sunderland College students are getting the benefits of joined up administration among members of the North East Shared Services Project. Organisations coming together to develop services that can be shared, including teaching and learning as well as office systems, are a year into their projects. The 157 Group and Association of Colleges (AoC) were […]
John Mountford, AoC international director, defends colleges’ foreign recruitment In recent weeks criticism has been levelled at colleges for their hugely beneficial work abroad. This very paper reported a turn of phrase by Sir Michael Wilshaw, Her Majesty’s chief inspector, which appeared to question the benefits of FE’s international work. In his speech to an […]
Opinion
Hundreds of providers are failing to hit a government target for keeping a check on whether new apprentices have got jobs. Learner records for an estimated 30,000 students were returned to the Information Authority (IA) with “not known”, “not provided” or “missing” in the employment status box last academic year. The National Union of Students […]
Matthew Hancock, the MP who took over from John Hayes in the reshuffle, says he’s “delighted” with his rapid move through the parliamentary ranks to a junior ministerial post. The new joint Parliamentary Under Secretary for Business Innovation and Skills and the Department for Education is in his first term as an MP. He was […]
It’s impossible to ignore the challenges faced by unemployed people in the UK. We seem to be confronted with an almost daily stream of bad news related to the issue. Only this week Ofsted published its report Skills for Employment. The report was a direct response to the government’s plans for FE providers to offer […]
