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Inspectors get college careers advice guidance

Ofsted inspectors have been issued new guidance on judging colleges’ provision of independent careers guidance. According to the education watchdog, its revised handbook for inspectors visiting FE providers has undergone “minor clarifications” in areas like good practice visits, re-inspection monitoring visits and the reporting process. And it has also seen the introduction of a section […]

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Governors called to account for ‘weak’ learning provision

The spotlight of Ofsted attention shone for the first time on prison education with the watchdog’s latest annual report — and it didn’t make for positive reading. Alexandra Marks looks at what’s going wrong behind locked doors. It was a challenging year for prison education that saw the new Offender Learning and Skills Service contract […]

Opinion

Leading London college tumbles to inadequate

One of London’s largest FE colleges, and a former outstanding one, has crashed to a grade four Ofsted rating. LeSoCo, a 17,600-learner college in South London, has been graded inadequate after its latest inspection, less than two months ago. While we fully accept the need for improvements in some areas of our teaching and learning […]

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Asha Khemka, principal, West Nottinghamshire College

Asha Khemka was always certain that one day she would be “somebody”, but she says there was never a plan. However, determination and success appear to be in the Khemka family genes. At the tender age of 33, her grandfather became the youngest judge to ever be appointed in the Indian state of Bihar, before […]

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First FE Commissioner job results in administered status for K College after Ofsted inadequate grade

Troubled K College has been put into administered status after becoming the first college to come under scrutiny from the FE Commissioner following the damning Ofsted report, published this morning. Skills Minister Matthew Hancock sent in commissioner David Collins and his team of advisers to review the college before the education watchdog’s report, which resulted in […]

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Ofsted annual report Q&A with Matthew Coffey

The Ofsted director of FE and skills spoke with FE Week deputy editor at the launch of the education watchdog’s 2012/13 annual report. Chris Henwood: The report mentions an initial evaluation of 16 to 19 programmes. Will that come as part of inspections, or will you be doing something separate? Matthew Coffey: I am always […]

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The AoC chief executive shares his thoughts after the three day conference

After an exhausting few days, Association of Colleges chief executive Martin Doel shared his thoughts with FE Week editor Nick Linford. The pair talked all things conference in a 45-minute webinar, sponsored by Tribal. Here are some of the key moments. Nick Linford: So, we heard from the president of the Association of Colleges, Michele […]

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Number of traineeship starts ‘disappointing’

Uptake on the government’s flagship traineeship scheme is failing to reach expectations, according to senior FE figures. It is too soon for Ofsted to report on the quality of traineeships in any detail… Skills Funding Agency boss Keith Smith (pictured) said colleges would deliver 57 per cent of projected 19 to 23 traineeships, while Ofsted […]

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Liverpool college revisit

A college in North England branded inadequate by Ofsted just four years after it was deemed outstanding is struggling to improve success rates. The education watchdog carried out a monitoring visit to City of Liverpool College last month. Its report on the revisit said the 14,000-learner college was making insufficient progress on advanced-level success rates, […]

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