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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 383

Judith Feline Trustee, Prisoners’ Education Trust Start date: April 2022 Previous Job: Governor, HMP Maidstone Interesting fact: When Judith was working in Bedfordshire she secured a £2.4 million Millennium Lottery Grant to create the Forest Centre – a country park visitor and conference centre Dan Baxter Business Manager, Education Practice, Peridot Partners Start date: April […]

Movers and Shakers

Tactical subcontracting deal abandoned in mayoral combined authority

Funding rules state ‘you must not subcontract to meet short-term funding objectives’

News, AEB

New Challenges need New Skills

COP26 is receding in the rear-view mirror. Two weeks of high-level talks between world leaders has resulted in statements of national commitment to reduce carbon emissions. While much will continue to be debated about whether it was a ‘success’ and whether commitments are ‘enough,’ we should see the outcomes as one part of an ongoing […]

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

FE has been highly responsive in the pandemic – now to face climate change

With the government’s final climate change strategy due next month, Tim Oates says sound policy is needed for FE to shape the green economy The global pandemic has prompted a discussion in England about schools and “the future of assessment”. But there are bigger, global questions around the future of education that we need to […]

Opinion, Climate Change, Covid-19

‘Consider the context’: colleges defend against gender pay gap Twitter bot

Numerous colleges fell victim, with some commentators accusing them of hypocrisy online. Some colleges deleted their initial posts 

News

Focus feature: The realities of research in FE

Despite a lack of funds and interest from above, research in FE is being kept alive by grassroots groups of lecturers and dedicated academics. Jess Staufenberg meets the movers and shakers to find out if it’s enough “There is no, as far as I know, ‘WonkFE’,” Phillip Augar said, from inside a cosy wooden lodge, […]

Feature, News, Long read, Research

DfE sets sail for first shipbuilding skills taskforce captain

A refreshed cross-government National Shipping Strategy was launched on Thursday

News

£30k starting salaries is good news for school teachers, but bad news for colleges

With more pressures on college costs and teacher starting salaries set to rise to £30k in schools, the gulf between staff pay in schools and colleges will only get wider without DfE intervention, writes David Hughes. Last week we published a report on the unprecedented challenges facing colleges in recruiting and retaining staff. We did […]

Opinion

Derwen College, West Midlands

A multi-award winning college on the remote border with Wales has flung its doors open to the public in every possible way. Jess Staufenberg explores the grounds It would be easy to see Derwen College as a hidden-away, far-flung provider which even its own locals might forget was there. First off, it’s by far the most remote […]

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