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The principal of Weston College Group has been awarded a CBE in the Queen’s birthday honours list. Dr Paul Phillips (pictured left), who joined Weston College in 2001, was made an OBE in 2011 and achieved an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted grade in 2014, has been recognised in the list published today. The keen wrestling fan, according […]
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Two providers have been awarded the highest possible grade from Ofsted – and a university technical college has bounced back from inadequate to good in just eight months. As exclusively revealed by FE Week, Dudley College became the first general FE college to be rated outstanding in 14 months this week. In a report published […]
An independent expert in government statistics has called for an investigation after the Department for Education encouraged the use of “misleading” provider apprenticeship achievement rate data, rather than publish the revised figures. In February the DfE revised its figures for 2015/16, causing a fall of nearly five percentage points in recorded achievement rates, after it […]
A cash-strapped college that was recently told by the FE Commissioner that it urgently needed to merge in order to survive has finally found a partner. Stratford-upon-Avon College, in Warwickshire, has today announced that it will merge with Solihull College & University Centre, with the launch date targeted for January 1, 2018. Stratford was rated […]
The first general FE to receive a grade one Ofsted rating in 14 months is Dudley College, FE Week can exclusively reveal. The report was full of glowing endorsements, including outstanding ratings for leadership and management, teaching, learning and assessment, personal development, behaviour and welfare, outcomes for learners, 16 to 19 study programmes, adult learning […]
The principal of Salford City College has reportedly quit after just two years at the helm, with a “new approach” now being called for following academic success but sweeping job cuts. John Spindler, who joined in April 2015, will leave his post at the end of this month. A college spokesperson told FE Week this […]
Conservative manifesto pledge: Continue with the target of 3m apprenticeship starts by 2020 Mark Dawe argues FOR Fears over quality are misplaced: three million is a modest target, but the right one, claims Mark Dawe The Conservatives were right to retain their 2015 pledge of three million apprenticeship starts by 2020. Even without the subsequent […]
Opinion
The creation of one of the largest colleges in the country in Nottingham has finally happened – 10 months after the merger was supposed to complete. The legal coming together of New College Nottingham, rated ‘good’ by Ofsted in January, and Central College Nottingham, which also recently received a grade two from the inspectorate, was […]
Your weekly guide to who’s new and who’s leaving Steven Foden has been appointed vice principal of the Worthing College in West Sussex. The college achieved an Ofsted rating of ‘good’ in its most recent 2016 inspection, following a ‘requires improvement’ rating. Mr Foden has served as interim vice-principal at the college since 2016, and […]
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