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Profile: Lisa O’loughlin

The Manchester College principal, Lisa O’Loughlin explains her collaborative strategy to provide the city with routes out of deprivation. By JL Dutaut When Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham called this week for schools to be closed to create a “true circuit break”, it is safe to assume that, as with so many other politicians’ educational announcements, […]

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Ofsted reveals key findings from FE visits during pandemic

Ofsted has today published a summary of what they found during their first “interim visits” of colleges and training providers that are taking place this autumn. A total of 36 providers were visited between September and October – the majority of which (22, or 61 per cent), were previously judged as ‘requires improvement’. While the […]

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College running on emergency cash to sell campus

A college in dire financial straits is looking to sell off one of its campuses to balance the books, the FE Commissioner has reported. The commissioner’s team intervened at Greater Brighton Metropolitan College (GB Met) following a request for emergency funding and a Notice to Improve from the Department for Education. Their report, published this […]

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MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 332

Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving. Rachael Charmbury, Director of business and community development, Craven College Start date: September 2020 Previous job: Chief executive, Charmbury Consulting Interesting fact: She met her husband at 5am while competing with him on a road rally. Ellen Thinessen, Chair, North East Local Enterprise Partnership’s Skills Advisory […]

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College paid £3.5m dividend following Saudi venture exit

A college exploring merger options has used a multi-million-pound exit dividend from an international venture to make a staff pay award and to repay a government bailout. Portsmouth-based Highbury College signed up to the Saudi Arabian Colleges of Excellence programme in 2013 and launched the International Technical Female College in Jeddah, a female vocational training […]

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Highbury College appoints permanent chair as merger option explored

A college that has been led by a troubleshooting interim chair for almost a year has appointed a permanent replacement as it continues to consider options for a merger. Ex-chief executive of the Association of Colleges Martin Doel (pictured left) was parachuted into Highbury College in December 2019 after it was hit by an expenses […]

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Ofsted ‘visits’ to go online during national lockdown

Ofsted has confirmed it will undertake school and FE provider visits “remotely” during the national lockdown. In a Twitter post this evening, the inspectorate said the programme of autumn visits across schools, colleges and other FE providers will be done remotely from Thursday. The post added: “During the national lockdown we will undertake our work […]

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DfE lifts all provider T Level restrictions from 2024

The Department for Education has announced today any provider delivering 16 to 19 study programmes will be able to run T Levels from 2024.  In an update to its ‘T Levels: next steps for providers’ document, the Education and Skills Funding Agency said: “By 2024 all T Levels will have been delivered for at least […]

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What Ofsted found in the first 10 ‘interim visits’ of FE providers

Virtual work placements, redesigned curriculums for practical courses and borrowing prosthetic limbs are among the creative adjustments made by FE providers to continue education in the midst of a pandemic, Ofsted has found. The inspectorate this week published letters from the first ten “interim visits” of colleges and training providers that are taking place this […]

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