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The next FE commissioner and the author of the landmark post-18 education review are among those receiving gongs in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours list. Included in the awards for almost 20 people from the FE and skills sector is a knighthood for Philip Augar and a CBE for Chichester College Group principal Shelagh Legrave. […]
News
Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Sue Kamal, People director, Realise Learning and Employment Ltd Start date: May 2021 Previous job: Global head of organisation development, Reuters Interesting fact: At weekends, she can often be found at the Pool Cafe in the Peak District village of Hathersage, where she helps her husband […]
Movers and Shakers
Another two university technical colleges are being absorbed into multi-academy trusts and expanding their age ranges after facing possible financial ruin amid recruitment struggles. A financial notice to improve issued last month to Health Futures UTC instructed it to join a “strong” MAT by September after the government became concerned about its “weak financial position […]
Colleges will have to share their records and analysis of sexual abuse when Ofsted comes knocking in the future. Inspectors will also speak to students about such issues after the watchdog admitted its inspections do not yet “sufficiently assess” the extent of sexual harassment in schools and colleges. The new rules follow a rapid review […]
News, Ofsted
Provider-level qualification achievement rates (QARs) will include only some courses in 2020/21, the Education and Skills Funding Agency has announced. Only those that are subject to normal assessment will be included, but qualifications that receive teacher-assessed grades will be left out. The QARs will then be shared with individual providers as well as Ofsted for […]
The head of the government’s careers quango has bemoaned how independent providers have not been given enough access to schools to talk up technical education. Speaking at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers national conference today, Oli de Botton (pictured, right) committed the Careers and Enterprise Company to this year making sure more students […]
If ministers did the necessary background research, failed initiatives like the National Colleges would be less likely to be repeated, writes Tom Richmond Albert Einstein famously asserted that “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. When the policy memory of many government departments – particularly […]
Opinion
A leading commercial training provider for the legal profession has been reprimanded by Ofsted for being too “inexperienced” to deliver high-quality apprenticeships. Datalaw Limited, which has provided professional development for law firms for more than 20 years, made “insufficient progress” in two areas of a new provider monitoring visit conducted last month. The company moved […]
Amanda Spielman has been given two extra years in the role of Ofsted chief inspector, the Department for Education has confirmed. FE Week’s sister publication Schools Week revealed earlier this month that the extension had been agreed by government but was awaiting Privy Council signoff. The DfE confirmed today that it is going ahead. Spielman joined the […]
