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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 345

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Natalie Taylor Director of employability, Learning Curve Group Start date: March 2021 Previous job: CEO, Antrec Limited Interesting fact: She developed her passion for vocational training at the age of 18 when she left college before her exams to start her own floristry business. Wayne Wright […]

Movers and Shakers

Introducing…David Phoenix

David Phoenix, a scientist who heads a group bringing together FE, HE and academies, shows why experimenting with a new model is critical for technical education  Quite how long education secretaries in England have been banging on about “breaking down” the divisions between technical and academic education and their respective sectors is anyone’s guess. At […]

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Ofsted watch: Nearly a clean sweep of positive results for FE providers throughout May

Almost nine in ten full Ofsted inspection reports for FE providers returned either ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ grades in May. And all but one of the 13 monitoring reports published this month produced ‘reasonable’ or ‘significant’ progress ratings. The education watchdog originally paused the publication of all further education and skills reports on the 20 March […]

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Incorporation: The end of an experiment or the end of a myth?

Ministers are considering taking colleges back into government control, as revealed last week in these pages. But, Jess Staufenberg asks, was incorporation ever what it was cracked up to be? There is a rising anxiety in the heart of government about the lack of intervention powers when colleges are failing. That’s what FE Week reported, in an […]

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Introducing… Christine Ricketts

Propelled rapidly upwards when her predecessor left, Christine Ricketts has been a steady hand on the wheel following troubled times at Brooklands College, in Surrey.  She had long aspired to be a deputy principal when Christine Ricketts spotted the advert for the role at Brooklands College, on the far outskirts of south-west London. She went […]

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Ofsted watch: An uncomfortable week for many providers

Three independent learning providers received a grade three from Ofsted, in a mixed week for FE providers. One independent learning provider, City College Nottingham, was found to be inadequate by the education watchdog but there were eight ‘good’ grades across the sector. Green Labyrinth, a Swindon-based independent learning provider, dropped from a grade two to […]

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Lecturers strike at London college despite agreeing pay deal last year

Strikes started today at a large London college just a year and a half after staff agreed a pay deal. University College Union members at the Tower Hamlets branch of New City College (NCC) have been on a picket line since 8am and will be out for 48 hours. It comes in spite of NCC […]

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UCU threatens strike action over AoC’s ‘derisory’ 1% staff pay rise recommendation

The University and College Union has threatened more strike action in the new year after the Association of Colleges recommended their members offer staff a one per cent pay rise this year. After meeting today, the union said the “derisory” offer was tantamount to a “breach of faith” as the AoC previously acknowledged that staff […]

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The 11 things we learned from the DfE’s and ESFA’s 2018-19 accounts

Both the Department for Education and Education and Skills Funding Agency have today published their annual accounts for 2018-19, revealing huge college write-offs, rising fraud allegations and an increase in civil servant bonuses. FE Week has trawled through both documents and pulled out the main findings:   1. Nearly £60m in loan write-offs for colleges […]

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