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All routine Ofsted inspections will now be put on hold, sister paper FE Week has revealed. The watchdog has halted inspections following prime minister Boris Johnson’s announcement earlier today to scale up coronavirus prevention measures. An Ofsted spokesperson told FE Week they are “putting a hold on all this week’s routine inspections of schools, social care, […]
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Oldham Sixth Form College is the first education provider to successfully defer an inspection due to the Coronavirus outbreak, Ofsted has confirmed. Inspectors were due into the college this week but the visit has now been postponed to an unknown date. Principal Jayne Clarke said: “We are pleased that Ofsted has agreed to defer our […]
Ofsted this morning published their contested grade four report into Shrewsbury Colleges Group, expressing concerns that “not all students feel safe”. The college will be “appealing against the safeguarding grade” and appear to be accusing the Ofsted national team of “overruling” their regional colleagues. See their full statement below. Shortly before 9am the report was […]
The upcoming AoC Sport National Championships has been called off due to the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. The annual event was due to take place from 24 to 26 April and would have included more than 2,000 college student athletes, staff and volunteers from across the country. In addition, all college sporting competitions organised by AoC […]
Another university technical college is scrapping its 14 to 19 age criteria and will start recruiting 13-year-olds from this September. Greater Peterborough UTC (GPUTC) announced the change following “positive” feedback in a consultation. It opened in 2016. Principal David Bisley explained it is “essential local young people passionate about science, technology, engineering, and maths are […]
FE Week meets the college principal who is determined to revitalize the fortunes of a neglected corner of England If anywhere feels like a left-behind coastal region, Medway is it. Yet, after decades of moving around Europe, England and South Africa, this is where Ipswich-born Simon Cook, principal of MidKent College, has decided to drop […]
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The controversial level 7 senior leader apprenticeship has again hit the headlines in recent days, after the education secretary questioned whether the £18,000 levy-funded MBA was “value for money”. The programme is traditionally associated with high profile universities running courses for executives in the corporate sector. But FE Week found it is an entrepreneur […]
A college accused of serious safeguarding failures has failed to overturn an ‘inadequate’ judgment following a second visit from Ofsted inspectors. FE Week understands that Shrewsbury Colleges Group will have a grade four report published imminently after its complaint to the education watchdog was not upheld. Leaders at the college, which teaches more than 9,000 […]
A college has been moved into FE Commissioner intervention after it breached a bank covenant and had to reclassify a near £10 million loan. Coventry College, which teaches around 6,000 learners, had a financial notice to improve published today after the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) assessed its finances as ‘inadequate’. The college’s accounts […]
