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‘Inadequate’ sixth form college has made ‘significant progress’, Ofsted monitoring visit finds

Hartlepool Sixth Form College (SFC) has made “significant progress” in improving on its previous inadequate Ofsted rating, the education watchdog’s latest FE monitoring visit report has found. The monitoring visit took place last month —10 months after it was rated as inadequate overall following its last full inspection, and seven months after the publication of […]

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AELP chief executive dismisses Ofsted criticism of ‘floor mopping and coffee making apprenticeships’

The Association for Employment and Learning Providers’ (AELP) chief executive Stewart Segal has hit back at Ofsted for criticising “floor mopping and coffee making apprenticeships” that he says don’t exist. Ofsted’s long-anticipated report in apprenticeships, which FE Week was shown a sneak preview of over the weekend, will be highly critical of apprenticeships for not […]

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College expects 40 ‘net’ job losses to result from cost cutting measures that could affect up to 300 people

Leeds City College expects a total net loss of 40 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs to result from a cost cutting programme that it is feared could affect nearly 300 people. A college spokesperson told FE Week this afternoon that it had launched a 45 day consultation period yesterday (October 19) on its “funding challenge response […]

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Ofsted to criticise apprenticeships for ‘accrediting existing low-level skills, like making coffee and cleaning floors’

A hotly anticipated Ofsted report will warn of a slump in the quality of apprenticeships that often fail to give learners the skills and knowledge needed by employers, FE Week can reveal. The results of the inspectorate’s inquiry into apprenticeships are not due out until Thursday (October 22), but an Ofsted spokesperson has given FE […]

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Apprenticeship levy plans may be better as ‘nuclear’ deterrent, says top Oxford University academic

A senior academic has said apprenticeship levy plans were like a “nuclear weapon — it may be worth threatening you are going to use it more than actually use it.” Professor Ewart Keep (pictured below right), director of Oxford University’s centre on skills, had told the House of Lords Social Mobility Committee he was “very […]

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Ofsted to carry out Prevent Duty thematic review

Ofsted is to carry out a thematic review of the implementation of the anti-terrorism Prevent Duty in the FE sector, FE Week can reveal. Paul Joyce (pictured above), Ofsted deputy director for FE and skills and independent schools, said he had put the idea to chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw. “I’ve actually proposed to our […]

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Shelagh Legrave, principal, Chichester College

There is an ongoing debate in the FE college sector about whether a principal should have a classroom background, or whether what’s really needed is business acumen forged in the cut-and-thrust world of the private sector. But could a third option — bearing in mind the relentless attack on sector finances — be service in […]

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Five ‘no confidence’ votes principal steps down

A Midland college principal hit with five votes of no confidence by staff has stepped down. Beverley Smith has resigned from her position as principal of Stafford College with immediate effect, the college has confirmed. It follows reports in local media this month that 14 members of staff at the college had been made redundant, […]

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Apprenticeships quality to come under the House of Lords spotlight

Apprenticeships will this week come under the spotlight in a House of Lords debate focussing on the quality and accessibility of the programme. Lady Prosser (pictured above), former deputy general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union and ex-president of the Trades Union Congress, is to open a debate on Thursday (October 15) looking at […]

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