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Grade four Priory ordered to leave second apprenticeship Trailblazer

Priory Central Services has been ordered to leave a second healthcare-related Trailblazer group following its grade four across-the-board rating from Ofsted. Dr Terry Tucker, who chairs the Trailblazer group developing an adult nursing higher apprenticeship standard that also includes BUPA, told FE Week that she had sent a letter to the apprenticeship employer provider on […]

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Woodcock’s journey up FE ladder under way

John Woodcock, the Labour MP for Cumbria’s Barrow and Furness, was appointed Shadow Education Minister for Young People last month. It’s a post that has seen a fair amount of change, with Mr Woodcock taking over from Yvonne Fovargue after she became Shadow Veterans Minister having had the education role for just seven months. She […]

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A call to demonstrate what FE and its workforce can offer

Andrew Harden reflects on FE events at the UCU 2015 congress in Glasgow. The University and College Union’s (UCU) first annual congress under the new government took place in Glasgow recently. The two-day event included a special sector conference attended by delegates from across the FE sector and a joint conference with colleagues in higher […]

Opinion

Edition 140: Lise-Lotte Olsen, Rebecca Kay, Natalie Wilson & Rayna Crawford-Jones

Chelmford’s Writtle College has a new governors’ board chair in Julia Smith. Ms Smith, who has served as a governor since July 2010, took over from Lise-Lotte Olsen, who finished her term of office after eight years in the Essex college role. “I very much look forward to this challenge as we enter an exciting […]

Movers and Shakers

Key founder college quits Gazelle amid membership review

Gazelle has been dealt a major blow with news that a key founding college has announced it is “no longer an active member,” FE Week can exclusively reveal. Fintan Donohue said he was “naturally disappointed” that North Hertfordshire College (NHC), where he was principal and chief executive when he set up Gazelle in around 2011, […]

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Pearson stops second distance provision linked to AL

Pearson has stopped registering higher national certificate (HNC) distance learning students at a second general FE college delivering the provision with support from private firm Acquire Learning (AL), FE Week can reveal. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) was critical of the HNC in business course, launched at South and City College Birmingham […]

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Ofsted scrapping of graded lesson observations ‘right’

Ofsted’s decision to scrap graded lesson observations for FE inspections has been described as the “right way to go” by Principals’ Professional Council (PPC) chair Sue Rimmer. A spokesperson for the education watchdog said on Friday (May 22) that it had consulted with FE providers and “conducted numerous pilot inspections to test the changes” before […]

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FE Commissioner praise following revisits

The FE Commissioner has praised progress being made at two colleges following revisits. Dr David Collins checked up on the 6,800-learner East Kent College, which had taken over the Dover and Folkestone campuses from K College. His revisit, in November, came after grade four Ofsted-rated K College was broken up last summer after falling at […]

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College job over after school achieves grade one

Hull College has given up its sponsorship of a formerly failing local school having guided it to top marks from Ofsted. Hull College stepped into take over Pickering High School Sports College in 2008, when just 18 per cent of learners were gaining the benchmark five GCSEs at A* to C grades and government officials […]

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