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FE college UTC heads out of special measures

A University Technical College (UTC) which had to be rescued by its local FE college after a damning Ofsted report could be on its way out of special measures, inspectors have said. A monitoring visit report on Central Bedfordshire UTC came out on March 2, revealing it had made “reasonable progress” since an inspection in […]

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Back to the drawing board on merger as financial rescue plan rejected

A Hampshire sixth form college has had to go back to the drawing board in its search for a partner with Sixth Form College Commissioner Peter Mucklow having warned it could not function alone financially. Totton College principal Mike Gaston (pictured below, left) announced in December that his college would be seeking a partnership and […]

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Hartlepool Sixth Form College focused on numbers over quality, commissioner finds

Hartlepool Sixth Form College focused too much on getting students through the doors and not of the quality of provision, the sixth form college commissioner has said. The college, which was slapped with an inadequate Ofsted grading in November, was visited by commissioner Peter Mucklow on February 28. In his report, published today, Mr Mucklow […]

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Training providers celebrate listings in Sunday Times’ ‘100 best companies to work for’

Two independent learning providers are celebrating being named on a prestigious list of the UK’s best companies to work for. Hit Training and ACT Training have both made it onto the Sunday Times 100 “best companies to work for” list for 2015. For Shoreham-by-Sea-based Hit Training it is the second year running it has been […]

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Commissioner suggests college help to Marine Society

The FE Commissioner has called for a distance learning provider to work with an FE college and raised doubts about the quality of its subcontractor of 35 years. Commissioner Dr David Collins visited the Marine Society College of the Sea after the 260-learner college had been slapped with an Ofsted inadequate grading the previous month. Inspectors […]

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New college procedures ‘not fit for purpose’

Official procedures to become an incorporated college have been described as “not fit for purpose” by the first person to have used them in more than two decades. Neil Bates, who last year oversaw the process of his Essex-based Prospects Learning Foundation (PLF) becoming Prospects College of Advanced Technology (Procat), also said the two-decade gap […]

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Ofsted ‘sea change’ over college finances

Ofsted has undergone a “sea change” in the way it looks at college finances, according to a principal who got two good ratings among his headline fields and yet emerged with an inadequate result overall. Weymouth College, visited by FE Commissioner Dr David Collins over its finances just under a year ago, got grade two […]

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Professor Wolf says more to be done on employer involvement

Professor Alison Wolf has called for more to be done to involve employers in college assessment and delivery after the government reported for the last time on progress in implementing reforms in her 2011 review of vocational education. She also stood by her study programmes recommendation, which has prompted a rise in the number of […]

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FE Week launches 2015 survey — prizes on offer for your opinions

It’s that time again! The second annual FE Week survey launches today with the aim of taking the sector’s pulse and delivering the results just in time for the general election on May 7. And just like last year you could win an iPad Air and an FE Week subscription just for taking part. The […]

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