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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 […]

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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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Ofsted issues warning over ‘misleading’ tweet

Ofsted is set to warn the boss of a London-based subcontractor to remove a Twitter post that wrongly suggested her firm had received a “successful” visit from the education watchdog. Krissy Charles-Jones (pictured), chief executive of Bright Assessing, tweeted on December 12 last year to thank her team for “such a successful Ofsted”. And the […]

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Opposite ends but same Ofsted results joy

Two general FE colleges at opposite ends of England have received glowing Ofsted reports. York College and Weston College, in Somerset, were both rated outstanding following inspections by the education watchdog at the end of last year. In both cases, the ratings were improvements on gradings of good from preceding inspections. York, with grade one […]

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Former college chief calls for Ofsted changes

Ofsted’s complaints process has been branded as “utterly pointless” by the chief executive who dared to boot inspectors out of her college. In her first interview about the notorious 2012 inspection of NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group), Dame Jackie Fisher (pictured left) told Rebecca Cooney (pictured right) from FE Week how she felt there was an […]

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