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Government u-turn on college fee remission policy

The Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published a press release this week which says that within current budgets, colleges will be able to offer free, fully-subsidised training to learners that under existing policies would have been charged a fee. Policy changes announced in November 2010 stated that only learners on particular ‘active’ benefits, such as […]

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Foundation Degree awarding powers granted to FE colleges for the first time

Newcastle College Group and New College Durham are the first FE colleges to be granted Foundation Degree awarding powers in England. The announcement last week follows an intensive scrutiny process by the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education. Stephen Jackson, Director of Reviews at the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) told FE Week: “After working with […]

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FE principal appointed to UKCES Board

The chief executive of Eastleigh College, Mr Tony Lau-Walker, is one of nine new members appointed to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills this week. “The diverse backgrounds and viewpoints represented by the nine new Commissioners will strengthen the Commission’s capacity to deliver skills for growth across all sectors, helping boost national productivity and […]

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Cuts in FE to ‘hit women and black and ethnic minorities hardest’

Current and planned cuts in further education will hit women and  black and ethnic minorities harder than most according to the Woman’s Leadership Network (WLN) and the Network of Black Professionals (NBP). The two organisations are so worried about the unfair effect, they have outlined their fears in a letter to the Chancellor, George Osborne. Their concerns were voiced at […]

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Position yourself to further your career

Jobs are getting thinner on the ground in FE as colleges across the country are making redundancies. Yet, no matter what sector you work in there is a limitless amount of generic information out there on how to further or even protect your career. The obvious advice can often be overlooked but it’s often the […]

Opinion

Toni Fazaeli, CEO, Institute for Learning

Friday has become Toni Fazaeli’s least favourite day of the week. Before boarding the train into London – where she commutes to the office from Leicester each day – she buys a strong coffee to help “brace herself” for opening the trade industry paper, the TES. It has been a bumpy few years for the […]

Profiles

Diversity in Challenging Times

An inspiring conference succeeds through collaboration Partnership working at its best was evident recently when the Women’s Leadership Network (WLN) and the Network for Black Professionals (NBP) delivered yet another successful conference – Diversity in Challenging Times. Following on from last year’s joint event, the WLN and the NBP designed and created another inspirational and […]

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What has DWP done for the college sector?

Skills conditionality is, if anything, a greater threat to classroom-based adult learning than the removal of fee remission for those poor benighted souls on “inactive” benefits. As the outline of the programme stands at the moment, Department for Work and Pension (DWP) staff appear to be able to tell us what classes to run and […]

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