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Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Frances Rutter has been appointed chief executive officer and principal at North East Surrey College of Technology. She’s currently the chief executive at Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, and will take up the role in spring, overseeing everything from courses to commercial ventures. She will also […]
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Sector leaders have been left “disappointed” after the government delayed its decision on whether to provide maintenance loans for higher level learners studying technical education in FE. On September 9, FE Week reported that the Department for Education had stalled on the issue, but promised to “make a statement in the autumn”. With the season […]
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Most colleges involved in the first two waves of the area reviews will neither change nor merge, it has been revealed. This lack of change was laid bare in the long overdue reports into the first 13 areas, which were finally published on Tuesday (November 29). Just 21 mergers involving 45 colleges are proposed – […]
Sir Michael Wilshaw has provoked outrage across the FE sector once again, with a series of “personal and ignorant remarks” that contradict Ofsted’s official views on post-16 English and maths failures. The education watchdog’s annual report, launched in Westminster on December 1, blamed government policy for the sharp increase in 16- to 18-year-olds failing their […]
Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has said the GCSE English and maths resit policy is not working as the government hoped. He raised the issue in his fifth and final annual report as Ofsted chief inspector, published this morning. “While the policy’s intention to improve literacy and numeracy levels is well intentioned, the implementation of […]
A much broader range of success measures is needed for apprenticeships – accounting for progression to higher pay and qualifications, and how well emerging industries are being catered for – MPs have warned in a new report. The Public Accounts Committee published its findings this morning on issues with the reform programme, ahead of the […]
The launch of a new nursing degree apprenticeship has been announced by health secretary Jeremy Hunt, with the aim of opening up the profession to more people. The first apprentice nurses could be working on wards from September. It is predicted by the government that once the programme is established, up to 1,000 apprentice nurses […]
One coach and a 659 mile flight later and Team UK has finally landed in Gothenburg ready to go for gold at EuroSkills 2016. The 22-strong team set out around 11am this morning from a Holiday Inn hotel in central London where they stayed overnight following a parliamentary send-off event yesterday. Robert Halfon, the […]
A quarter of apprenticeship providers have declined the opportunity compete for an SFA contract to deliver training to small and medium sized businesses from next May. The new Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers, which providers have to be on if they want to deliver apprenticeship starts from May 1 next year, closed for applications at 5pm […]
