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The second wave of strike action by University and College Union members has begun, in an ongoing dispute over pay. Staff at five colleges or groups – four in London and one in the Midlands – have walked out for two or three days this week in protest at a one-per-cent pay offer from the […]
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The area reviews of post-16 education and training ended last March. They were designed to establish “fewer, often larger, more resilient and efficient providers”, but one year on from that final meeting of the steering group, there are more than a few financially challenged still struggling to find merger partners. FE Week looked at what’s […]
A merger between a cash-strapped London college and a nearby university will be going ahead after all – even though the college has been searching for other potential partners. Lambeth College originally said it would join London South Bank University in December 2016. But it emerged in January that those plans had hit the […]
A college is joining a university using an “innovative” new merger model that’s acting as a pilot for future partnerships between FE and HE. The alliance, between Bolton College and the University of Bolton, means the college, which has a grade two from Ofsted, will retain its own principal and governing board, giving it greater […]
Twelve cash-strapped colleges received secret government bailouts totalling more than £11 million in December. It perhaps demonstrates a significant increase in the amount of money being dished out to struggling colleges – and has prompted demands for greater transparency. The figures were published by the Department for Education as part of a scheduled release detailing […]
Financially struggling colleges should seek bailouts from the restructuring fund while they still can, the FE commissioner has said in his annual report. “There remains an opportunity for colleges, while the restructuring facility is available, to access support to put them in a strong position ahead of the introduction of the insolvency regime and the […]
A cash-strapped college has received £3.5 million in emergency funding, according to its accounts. Cornwall College Group received exceptional financial support in December after it ended the year with £2.25 million less in the bank than planned – and ahead of an application to the restructuring facility. “The group’s highest and most significant risk is […]
Lambeth College, which was served with a notice of concern for financial control by the Education and Skills Funding Agency yesterday, is expecting to receive a massive cash injection from the government’s restructuring facility by the end of the month, according to its own accounts. It is also in the market for a new merger […]
Two FE colleges are celebrating Ofsted success this week after climbing from a grade 3 to a grade 2. Burton and South Derbyshire College was ranked ‘good’ across the board after its inspection on September 26. The report, published on October 20, commended the college for taking “extensive and effective steps” to improve provision, with […]
