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A source of challenge to sound leadership

Good governance is about far more than a checklist: it is about supporting and developing an institution to enhance opportunity and success, says Dr Paul Phillips I have to hand it to chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw. He is a man on a mission, turning his attention to governance. At face value, he seems to […]

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Principal defiant after Ofsted grade four

Third poor inspection for City College Coventry’s Paul Taylor The principal of the latest big city college to be labelled inadequate by Ofsted has told of his determination to stay on and “put things right”. After 16 years in the job and two previous poor inspections, Paul Taylor, at City College Coventry, was hit with […]

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Government announces vocational measure

Plans for a new Tech Bacc were announced by the government today. It will be introduced for courses beginning in September 2014 and be reported for the first time in the college and school sixth-form performance tables in January 2017. The Tech Bacc will be a performance measure marking achievement by young people aged 16 […]

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Traineeships are ‘go’

Skills Minister chooses Manchester meeting to ‘launch’ programme The 11-month wait for an outline of the government’s plans for traineeships appears to be almost over, just as youth unemployment figures nudge the one million mark. Skills Minister Matthew Hancock is due to speak this week at an event hosted by the Greater Manchester Chamber of […]

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Apprentice wage cheats crackdown

Business Secretary Vince Cable has promised “tough new measures” to tackle employers who pay apprentices below the legal minimum, up 3p to £2.68 an hour from October. Dr Cable’s announcement came after a Low Pay Commission report indicated 27 per cent of all apprentices, and more than 40 per cent of apprentices aged 16 and […]

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UTCs: just what the local employers ordered

The Government might say it supports university technical colleges, but it needs to take heed of criticisms of its planned curriculum reform and removal of many vocational qualifications from school league tables, says Charles Parker Ask 14–year–olds what they think about having a longer school day and fewer school holidays and their answer is likely […]

Opinion

Why I’m one of the lucky ones

Careers advisers too often ignore apprenticeships in professions such as accountancy and try to convince students that university is the only answer, says Alison Ryder  Let’s be honest, most teenagers don’t think too much about their future while they’re at school. It wouldn’t surprise me if half of them pursue a career simply because their […]

Opinion

Advertorial: NOCN partnership to develop training

Apprenticeships will help to fill the gap created as workers with civil engineering skills retire, writes Graham Hasting-Evans  Traditionally formal apprenticeships have by-passed civil engineering — until now. But all that is changing as the construction industry faces up to a ticking time bomb caused by a skills shortage and an aging workforce. Make no […]

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The post-Incorporation college: a not-so-sleeping giant

Leeds City College is one of the single largest providers of apprenticeships in the UK following the launch of the Apprenticeship Training Agency — jointly owned with the local authority — and the creation of the Food Academy at city centre restaurant Flannels. Now the third largest college in the UK with more than 40,000 […]

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