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Councillors have U-turned on their decision to outsource local authority adult learning services – citing the current area reviews of post-16 education and training as a key reason for the decision. In June funding cuts prompted Croydon Council to agree to find a private provider to run its community and adult learning service from 2017, […]
News
Your weekly guide to who’s new, and who’s leaving. Saboohi Famili has joined Epping Forest College in London as its new principal. She joins the college following a two-year stint supporting the government of Guernsey in reshaping post-16 education in the Bailiwick. Prior to this, Ms Famili held the position of principal at Sutton […]
Movers and Shakers
We recently hosted a roundtable discussion on the benefits of the levy and our new hospitality standards, organised by our weekly trade magazine and attended by a dozen human resources directors from major national contract catering and hotel chains. I was impressed by how these HR professionals have embraced the levy as a tool to […]
Opinion
A young offenders’ institution has secured its place in the history books, after becoming the first secure establishment in the world to receive the prestigious ‘Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark Award’, Samantha King reports. Her Majesty’s Young Offenders’ Institution Werrington in Staffordshire began its life as an industrial school in 1895, before being purchased by the […]
Bulletin
Mark Dawe reflects below on apprenticeship and skills minister Robert Halfon’s comments at the Conservative Party Conference on his priorities for apprenticeship reforms. I have just sat in a fringe meeting at the Conservative Party conference that gave the apprenticeship and skills minster, Robert Halfon, the opportunity to speak and answer questions for an hour. In summary, […]
A financial notice to improve has been issued to The Heathrow Aviation Engineering University Technical College by the Education Funding Agency, due to an “apparent loss of financial control”. The UTC, which opened in North London in September 2014, had failed to balance its budget and suffered with cash flow problems since 2015, according to […]
Ofsted could be heading for an embarrassing U-turn over its surprise decision to threaten providers with legal action over their unauthorised use of its logo to advertise ‘good’ inspection ratings. Last week, FE Week revealed that several training providers had been threatened out of the blue with court action by the education watchdog, for the […]
Ofsted is using just one training provider for its new cohort of 31 apprentices, FE Week can reveal. The recruits will all follow a two-year business administration programme at levels two and three with Stockport-based provider Damar Ltd. In March, the Skills Funding Agency was found to be using a total of 13 different providers […]
Good mental health support is vital and can be improved by sharing good practice, says Ian Ashman. The Association of Colleges’ 2015 survey on mental health in colleges asked members about changes in the incidence of mental health issues amongst students. The intelligence provided by principals was startling. Two thirds said that the number of […]
