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Using tech effectively throughout your college is about creating equal opportunities for all learners, explains Deborah Millar Our job is to prepare students for their future. If we don’t teach them to use digital technology, we’re not preparing them for the real world of business and industry. Two of the three colleges I’ve worked at […]
Opinion
High street giant Boots has been hit with a third ‘requires improvement’ rating in a row by Ofsted. Inspectors who visited the employer provider in early October to monitor its apprenticeship provision criticised it for not learning lessons quickly enough from previous poor inspections in June 2015 and then again in June 2017. However, the […]
News
A troubled college group has appointed a seasoned troubleshooter as its interim principal. Cornwall College Group lost its former head Raoul Humphreys earlier this month, when he stepped with immediate effect in an attempt to “expedite” a government bailout for the financially strained college. Dr Elaine McMahon will now take over as interim principal and […]
A scandal involving one of the country’s biggest apprenticeship providers has engrossed the sector ever since the turn of this academic year – but details on exactly what caused it have been few and far between. FE Week can now reveal just why Aspire Achieve Advance, better known as 3aaa, which had around 4,500 learners […]
FE has faced a difficult week in Ofsted inspections as three providers were hit with ‘inadequate’ ratings. Three others were graded as ‘requires improvement’ in a week which saw 15 inspection reports published for FE and skills providers. Norfolk’s Easton and Otley College was hit with its second grade four rating in a row in […]
Ofsted has denied cuts to its budget have affected the number of FE inspections it carries out, despite analysis by FE Week finding full inspections plunged by a third in just one year. Inspections with an apprenticeship grade saw the most dramatic fall of over 40 per cent, leading to the shadow secretary of state […]
FE Week travelled to Newcastle to meet the college principal who was recognised in the New Year’s honours for her services to skills education in the north-east, and who’s spent her entire career in the same institution Two images of Judith Doyle stick with me – long after I’ve walked the Tyne Bridge back north […]
Profiles
Twenty ‘insufficient’ apprenticeship providers have now been banned from taking on new starts as Ofsted’s scrutiny of new providers continues. Four new providers have been added to the barred list in the latest update to the register of apprenticeship training providers, published today, after making poor progress in at least one area monitored by the […]
The government has been left red-faced after FE Week found thousands of apprentices with no organisation responsible for checking the quality of delivery of their training. The apprenticeship accountability statement, published by the Department for Education, says responsibility for oversight of level six and seven programmes does not lie with Ofsted but with the Office […]
