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Exeter College reigns supreme as the best college in the country for the second year running in FE Week’s exclusive league table. This year’s NICDEX gave 202 colleges a score of up to 40, with 10 marks available in four categories: learner satisfaction, employer satisfaction, 16-to-18 positive progression and adults into employment. The league table […]
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Best of AoC Conference 2017 supplement | Click here to download Colleges in spotlight like never before The AoC annual conference, coming the week before the budget, was never going to offer anything from the government in the way of new policies or addition funding So we will have to wait until next Wednesday to find […]
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A college in the Tees Valley has received the lowest possible Ofsted rating, facing particular criticism for “inadequate” leadership and management and “very weak” finances. Redcar and Cleveland College was also singled out for poor quality-assurance processes, low attendance and achievement rates, poor teaching, learning and assessments and a lack of detailed information provided to […]
While around 80 per cent of further education and skills providers are good or outstanding, the number requiring improvement has increased over time. For these providers, inspectors conduct ‘support and challenge’ visits to help them improve. We want to do all we can to be a force for improvement through intelligent, responsible and focused inspection […]
Opinion
A new inquiry into the quality of apprenticeships and skills training has been launched by the House of Commons education select committee. Former apprenticeships and skills minister Robert Halfon, who now chairs the committee, will confirm this during a speech at The Skills Show in Birmingham today. A spokesperson for the committee said: “While many […]
Bradford College has confirmed that its group chief executive is stepping down after it received both a financial notice to improve and an Oftsed grade three in short succession. Andy Welsh, who became group chief executive in August 2014, is stepping down at the end of this academic year. The Education and Skills Funding Agency […]
Ofsted will conduct early monitoring visits at new providers entering the apprenticeship market to sniff out any “scandalous” attempts to waste public money, the chief inspector has said. In front of hundreds of college leaders at the AoC Conference this afternoon, Amanda Spielman announced new measures to ensure that situations like the Learndirect debacle are […]
Nick Linford considers the extent to which poor college performance can be blamed on government interference and a lack of investment. If Ofsted inspection reports are to be believed, we should be very concerned that the college sector has been going downhill for three years in a row. This week we’ve crunched the figures and […]
Anne Milton wants a refreshed “partnership” between FE and the government to help with the technical education reforms. The skills and apprenticeships minister used her speech at this year’s Association of Colleges conference to plea with sector leaders for closer collaboration after going through past turbulent years that have “put too much distance between us”. […]
