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Movers and Shakers: Edition 152

Learning Curve Group has appointed Jac Ingram as its new group operations director. She joins from awarding organisation NCFE where she spent 11 years as director of business operations. Ms Ingram said: “I am proud to have helped NCFE achieve so much over the past decade and to grow into an organisation with international ambitions, […]

Movers and Shakers

Movers & shakers edition 152

Learning Curve Group has appointed Jac Ingram as its new group operations director. She joins from awarding organisation NCFE where she spent 11 years as director of business operations. Ms Ingram said: “I am proud to have helped NCFE achieve so much over the past decade and to grow into an organisation with international ambitions, […]

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Hackney Community College first to be rated under new Ofsted framework — but report layout comes under fire

Hackney Community College went up an Ofsted grade to good today as it became the first FE and skills provider rated under the new common inspection framework — but the revamped report itself came under fire. The 6,200-learner East London college was inspected from September 29 to October 2, having previously been visited by the education watchdog in […]

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‘Inadequate’ sixth form college has made ‘significant progress’, Ofsted monitoring visit finds

Hartlepool Sixth Form College (SFC) has made “significant progress” in improving on its previous inadequate Ofsted rating, the education watchdog’s latest FE monitoring visit report has found. The monitoring visit took place last month —10 months after it was rated as inadequate overall following its last full inspection, and seven months after the publication of […]

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Shelagh Legrave, principal, Chichester College

There is an ongoing debate in the FE college sector about whether a principal should have a classroom background, or whether what’s really needed is business acumen forged in the cut-and-thrust world of the private sector. But could a third option — bearing in mind the relentless attack on sector finances — be service in […]

Profiles

Boles addresses apprenticeship standard quality concerns

Skills Minister Nick Boles (pictured above) addressed concerns about how the quality of apprenticeships will be policed as the government drives towards its target of creating 3m apprenticeship by 2020. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) raised the possibility, in its consultation on the proposed large employers’ apprenticeship levy set to be introduced […]

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‘Soviet-style’ apprenticeship quality question

The government’s record on improving the quality of the apprenticeships programme has come in for questioning. Falling success rates, exemptions from minimum standards and publicly-aired doubts from the education watchdog’s chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw (pictured below right) have cast a shadow over the government’s 3m apprenticeship starts target for this Parliament. It’s a situation […]

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The Indy Scene

 The summer holidays over, a new contract year starting, let’s silence the press criticism of apprenticeships by producing outstanding performances from our learners, inspired by the stunning results of the UK WorldSkills team. I started my holiday on a Wednesday, for HIT next day the dreaded Ofsted phone call came for a full inspection the […]

Opinion

SFA contract joy as safeguarding ‘glitches’ disappear

An independent learning provider that faced losing its Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract after an Ofsted inadequate rating over safeguarding fears four months ago has managed to hold onto its public funding deal following a good Ofsted judgment. Leicester-based firm Qdos was given three months’ notice that its SFA contract would be torn up after […]

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