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The Indy Scene: Edition 153

When high street jeweller Gerald Ratner famously rubbished one of his products a few years ago, his ill-judged comments resulted in Britain’s biggest jewellery group plunging £122.3m into the red with 330 shops in Britain and the United States closing. I’m sure Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw, when rubbishing ‘cleaning’ and ‘coffee-making’ apprenticeships, did […]

Opinion

Tighter control of finances wins Dr Collins’ approval

The FE Commissioner was sent in to Stratford-Upon-Avon College after the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) rated its financial health as inadequate. Nicola Mannock outlines the actions taken on the commissioner’s advice. Following a year of exceptionally hard work by my dedicated and committed team, Stratford-upon-Avon College is now, as reported by FE Week, officially out […]

Opinion

Providers urged to think about what technology ‘will do for learners’

The impact technology has on learners is more important to Ofsted than the technology itself, a former inspector told delegates at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers’ Learning Technologies Expo 2015. Kerry Boffey (pictured above), director of the Adult Learning Improvement Network, said providers needed to think about what technology “will do for learners”. […]

News

First Ofsted short inspection of FE provider published amid ‘cramming in’ concerns

The results of the first Ofsted short inspection of a good provider were positive for the Cheshire college visited — but fears have emerged that it was “more of a case of how much you can cram in within two days”. The 4,100-learner Riverside College, in Widnes, was the first FE provider to experience the […]

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Movers and Shakers: Edition 152

Learning Curve Group has appointed Jac Ingram as its new group operations director. She joins from awarding organisation NCFE where she spent 11 years as director of business operations. Ms Ingram said: “I am proud to have helped NCFE achieve so much over the past decade and to grow into an organisation with international ambitions, […]

Movers and Shakers

UTCs ‘do work colleges have done for years’ hears House of Lords committee

University Technical Colleges (UTCs) have been criticised in front of a Lords committee for stepping in where “colleges could already do the work”. In the tenth evidence session of the House of Lords committee on social mobility’s inquiry into the transition from school to work, witness Pat Brennan-Barrett, principal of Northampton College (pictured above), said […]

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FE Commissioner ends work at Lancashire Adult Learning and Stratford Upon Avon College

Further Education Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured above) has ended his involvement at two more FE and skills providers. Lancashire Adult Learning (LAL), which was told by Dr Collins earlier this year to scale down its skills offer, has been told by Skills Minister Nick Boles that Dr Collins’ input was no longer needed. Mr […]

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Movers & shakers edition 152

Learning Curve Group has appointed Jac Ingram as its new group operations director. She joins from awarding organisation NCFE where she spent 11 years as director of business operations. Ms Ingram said: “I am proud to have helped NCFE achieve so much over the past decade and to grow into an organisation with international ambitions, […]

Movers and Shakers

Ofsted apprenticeship report ‘tactics’ branded ‘damaging’

Stewart Segal hits back at Ofsted’s recent report that was critical of apprenticeships. After all the damaging headlines that resulted from the Ofsted report, we can now consider how we take forward some of the issues set out in the report. AELP and providers have been committed to raising the quality of apprenticeships well before […]

Opinion