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Minister beams over college enterprise

It’s early days in the new relationship between FE and local enterprise partnerships, but how they will now work together was the centre of discussion at a London conference. Chris Henwood reports  Further education and its place at the centre of local “entrepreneurial ecosystems” was the theme of a conference organised by the Gazelle Colleges […]

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Classroom in the cloud

With the sector facing staffing cuts, Mark Stimpfig looks at the technology that can ease the challenge of teaching languages in leaner times Youth unemployment is soaring as competition for jobs is the fiercest it has been for many years in the UK. To succeed in the labour market, college leavers need as many strings […]

Opinion

Robin Landman, CEO, Network for Black Professionals

Robin Landman’s experience of social injustice is rooted much deeper than the workplace. Being forced to flee apartheid-era South Africa as a boy for the London suburb of Eltham — where schoolboy Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack in 1993 — helped the 61-year-old understand the need for a Network for Black Professionals […]

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Traineeships launched, but only for some

The 11-month wait for a government outline of traineeships is over — but “disappointment” has been expressed about who can take them. They were first proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in June last year to help 16 to 24-year-olds gain work-related skills and attitudes. But it wasn’t until today that the Skills Minister […]

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Minister okays college merger

The troubled merger of two colleges in the Midlands has been given the nod of approval by Skills Minister Matthew Hancock, who had told them to take the plans back to the drawing board. Proposals by Stourbridge and Birmingham Metropolitan to form “one of the largest and most significant further education providers in the country” […]

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Colleges’ troubled merger plan goes ahead

Two Midland colleges are set to merge less than two months after Skills Minister Matthew Hancock told them to go back to the drawing board with the plans. Proposals by Stourbridge and Birmingham Metropolitan to form “one of the largest and most significant further education providers in the country” have been okayed by governors. They […]

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Making it personal

The increased freedoms and flexibilities that study programmes will allow are to be welcomed, says Dean O’Donoghue. But how they will be judged by Ofsted? From September all post-16 providers will introduce 16 to 19 study programmes, coinciding with the raising of the participation age (RPA) and a revised funding methodology. The overall move to […]

Opinion

Deirdre Hughes, chair, National Careers Council

It’s the mid-1970s. You’re a pupil in Northern Ireland, at the height of the Troubles, nervous about the careers advice you’re about to receive. You’re told there simply are no jobs . . . anywhere. “There was high unemployment and, I don’t think I’m exaggerating, Northern Ireland was like a war zone,” says Deirdre Hughes, […]

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Michele Sutton, principal, Bradford College

The world of FE is dotted with strong female role models. There’s Dame Ruth Silver, chair of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, 157 Group executive director Lynne Sedgmore and, of course, Toni Pearce who has blazed the FE trail to preside over the National Union of Students. Meanwhile, the Association of Colleges has its […]

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