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Provider ordered to stop quals after malpractice probe

A Warwickshire-based provider has been told it can no longer offer qualifications from a leading awarding organisation after it investigated allegations of malpractice. Bright Assessing, which has boasted a pass rate of between 95 and 100 per cent, has been told it will “no longer have any involvement in the administration, delivery, assessment, moderation, invigilation and certification” […]

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Ofsted considers watching new FE teachers

Newly-qualified teachers in FE colleges could have their lessons observed by Ofsted as part of its inspection of teacher training organisations. Ofsted has launched a consultation on plans to change the way it inspects teacher training programmes so inspectors also watch former trainees teach near the start of their employment. Ofsted is consulting on its […]

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To the defence of colleges over Leps

Ofsted director of FE and skills Matthew Coffey told the Education Select Committee last week how colleges needed to do more to engage with local enterprise partnerships. His comments reaffirmed the overall message of the education watchdog’s annual report last year, but Phil Hatton asks whether such college criticism is justified. Strangely, if you take […]

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Principal of inadequate Greater Manchester college to ‘work from home’

The principal of a Greater Manchester college is to take early retirement after it dropped from outstanding to inadequate in six years. Stephen Carlisle (pictured) is to “work from home”  for the remainder of his contract at Stockport College. He is expected to be replaced by former Blackburn College principal Ian Clinton. It comes four months after the […]

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Coffey issues warning to government on college and Lep relationship

The man in charge of England’s college inspections has called for “oversight” of the relationship between colleges and local enterprise partnerships (Leps). Concerns that colleges were not meeting the skills needs of their local areas were raised by Matthew Coffey, director of FE and skills at the education watchdog, during a meeting of the House […]

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Edition 91: Julie Robinson, Steve Whitehead

  Greater Manchester independent learning provider has appointed a new chief executive. Julie Robinson  has taken the helm at Bolton-based Alliance Learning having risen through the ranks from sales and marketing manager 20 years ago. She started her career at Gullick Dobson as an office junior before joining Alliance Learning in 1994 as a sales […]

Movers and Shakers

What can Ofsted learn from its own complaints system?

Last week, ex-NCG (Newcastle College Group) chief executive Jackie Fisher spoke exclusively to FE Week about her notorious 2012 Ofsted inspection. She explained why she booted the education watchdog out of the college mid-inspection before calling for the Ofsted complaints-handling procedure to become more transparent. Here, Policy Consortium trio Colin Forrest, Mike Cooper and Carolyn […]

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Jane Overbury, principal, Christ the King Sixth Form College

Dr Jane Overbury says it is “genuinely a surprise” to find herself principal of Inner London’s Christ the King Sixth Form College. “My ambition has always been around being the best I can at whatever I’m doing, and I have always had just very short-term goals,” says the 55-year-old, who was awarded an OBE for […]

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Ambitious independent provider plans raise prospect of new college

Ambitious plans to become an incorporated FE college and develop new sites across the country have been revealed by Essex-based charity Prospects Learning Foundation. The independent learning provider (ILP), which has a current Skills Funding Agency allocation of £2.6m and already brands itself as Prospects College, has launched a consultation on plans to get FE […]

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