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Thirty four general FE colleges and 15 sixth form colleges (SFCs) will be involved in the second wave of post-16 education and training area reviews, it was announced today. Six reviews have been detailed in the Midlands, London and the North West among other areas, and are set to begin next month. And just like the seven […]
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There’s understandable angst in FE colleges about the area reviews. It’s an issue that’s been playing on my mind and so I’ve tried to get down some of the main points about these that are bugging me. Government says that the ‘post-16 education sector is critical to our strategy of raising productivity and economic growth’. Yes, everyone […]
Opinion
Colleges readying themselves for an impending Department for Education (DfE) policy have witnessed a dramatic rise in the number of English and maths GCSE exams that has left many struggling to accommodate learners. One college even saw gridlock on nearby roads with bumper learner numbers on Tuesday (June 2) and also had to resort to […]
Eight University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been listed among England’s worst providers for overall absence. The Department for Education statistics, for last autumn, show how Elutec, in Essex, is the worst of the UTCs with a figure that put it at eighth in the list of shame among providers which recruit pupils aged five to […]
Six out of 30 University Technical Colleges (UTCs) are operating at up to just a third full — with two running at no more than 14 per cent capacity, FE Week can exclusively reveal. The two — Central Bedfordshire UTC and Wigan UTC — did not recruit any learners into Year 10 in 2014/15, according […]
Croydon College has revealed its revamped free school proposal in its second attempt to open its own secondary school. The London-based college’s proposals were rejected in March in the last round of free school applications after the Department for Education (DfE) said that its plans “required more detail”. The college’s new proposal for the school, […]
College sector leaders have called for a review of the drive for more University Technical Colleges (UTC) after one of the very first to open announced it was closing — on the same day the Prime Minister visited a UTC to promise one “within reach of every city”. Black Country UTC announced on Tuesday (April […]
Funding increases, University Technical Colleges (UTCs) near every English city, a commission on funding for lifelong learning and millions of apprenticeships were on the agenda as the two Coalition parties went head-to-head with their general election manifestos. The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats may have presided over the same education policies in Government, but apart from […]
The Conservatives will put a University Technical College (UTC) “within reach of every city” and increase the use of destination data about FE courses if they form a government again in May, the party has announced. Alongside existing pledges to create 3m apprenticeship starts over the course of the next Parliament and “improve” FE by […]
