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Edition 149: Movers and Shakers

David Sykes has officially started in his role as managing director of FE and skills solutions specialist FEA. He joins at a time of change for the organisation as it rebrands from FE Associates and brings together the company’s performance improvement division, BW Consultants. Under the new brand, FEA will concentrate on transformational solutions for […]

Movers and Shakers

Has Gazelle changed its spots?

Gazelle has responded to long-running criticism that its £35k membership fee, along with other costs, could not be justified in the absence of any return on investment analysis, including any proof that membership affected Ofsted grades. Fintan Donohue explains how such criticism has changed the organisation. The Gazelle Colleges Group commissioned an analysis of its […]

Opinion

New destination data performance measure aims to have ‘bite’ to ‘provoke transformational improvements’

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) today launched a consultation on a new destination data performance measure that will have the “bite” to “provoke transformational improvements”. The government launched the consultation, which will close on December 2, to consider its proposal for an outcome-based success measure to complement the existing qualification achievement success […]

News

‘Not only a car crash, but a multiple pile-up’ — the FE sector view revisited six months after 2015 survey

The 2015 FE Week and Policy Consortium survey was published on the brink of a general election.  Six months on and the new government has introduced a flood of reforms affecting the FE and skills sector.  But far from showing improvement, this follow-up survey, in which the Policy Consortium revisited 32 of the initial survey […]

News

Gazelle bosses slash annual membership fee to £15k after more than half of colleges quit group

The number of colleges in Gazelle has more than halved in the space of just over a year to 10 — with three out of the five founder colleges having also walked away, it was revealed today. The dwindling numbers were laid bare with the conclusion of the group’s long-running membership review, in which its annual membership fees […]

News

Principal says ‘no’ to AoC

Burton & South Derbyshire College (B&SDC) is set to leave the Association of Colleges (AoC), FE Week can reveal. A spokesperson for the college, which received a grade two Ofsted rating in December 2011 and was allocated £6m by the Skills Funding Agency as of July, said it would not be renewing membership this academic […]

News

Colleges with repeated deficits to speed up merger plans after FE Commissioner visit

Two Midland colleges that are already in a federation have sped up plans to merge on the advice of FE Commissioner Dr David Collins after he saw how their recurring deficits were hitting finances. Dr Collins visited North Warwickshire & Hinckley College in May and South Leicestershire College the following month over concerns about the […]

News

Shining an area review light on sub-contracting

When the Department for Business Innovation and Skills published its annual funding letter in February, it outlined concerns with the rise of sub-contracting. Nick Linford takes a look, in the context of the college area reviews, at whether more can be done to lift the lid on this murky world. Let’s start by looking at […]

Opinion

Edition 147: Movers and Shakers

Bradford College has welcomed David Harwood as its new principal. He was previously the senior deputy principal of Leeds City College. He said he was “keen to focus my energies on what really makes a difference” in his new role. “My belief is that students come first where we have a collective approach in providing a teaching environment […]

Movers and Shakers