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FE Week meets a sixth form college principal who has known what he wanted to do since year 12 “I remember getting to sixth form and thinking vividly, ‘this is what I want to work in. This is the environment for me.’” It may seem quite incredible that as a 17-year-old, Gerard Garvey, now principal […]
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With so much uncertainty and disruption to classrooms, it has been difficult to deliver key post-16 tutorials in recent months. For many colleges and sixth forms, it’s been tricky to adapt. Thousands of teachers had to quickly find alternative ways to deliver online lessons, whilst still trying to provide a semblance of routine for students […]
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A huge training provider that delivers hundreds of apprenticeships for the civil service is planning to make major redundancies. Training giant QA Limited, which currently employs over 2,250 staff, is bracing itself for business to plummet following recent conversations with their clients as a result of Covid-19. FE Week understands that hundreds of those jobs […]
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Almost nine in ten full Ofsted inspection reports for FE providers returned either ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ grades in May. And all but one of the 13 monitoring reports published this month produced ‘reasonable’ or ‘significant’ progress ratings. The education watchdog originally paused the publication of all further education and skills reports on the 20 March […]
Mark Dawe is stepping down as chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to head up a major subcontractor to colleges. He began telling staff today that he is set to leave the role this summer after leading the membership organisation for four years. Current chief operating officer, Jane Hickie, has been […]
The government’s response to a consultation that outlined plans to overhaul subcontracting rules in further education has been delayed by a month. Officials in the Education and Skills Funding Agency had planned to publish their decisions in May, but they announced today that their outcome will now be released in June. In their weekly update, […]
A large general FE college has announced its seventh round of job cuts in six years. Blackburn College has put 29 jobs at risk, with 11 posts (6.98 full-time equivalent positions) expected to be cut. Affected staff members were informed of the redundancy consultation via video chat yesterday, in a move which union officials do […]
A university technical college in Hull has been dubbed a “guiding light in the education sector” after being rated ‘outstanding’ in its first ever Ofsted inspection. Ron Dearing UTC, which opened in September 2017, received grade ones across the board in a report published today that did not include one line of criticism. It becomes […]
Fed up of lockdown? Fancy getting that brain back into gear? Want to nerd out with some other FE folk? We’re excited to announce that the first ever FE Week Big FE & Skills Quiz will take place next month (Wed June 10 19:00-20:30). Hosted by FE Week’s publisher Shane Mann, the quiz is all […]
