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

Visit here to take part in the 2015 survey. 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 […]

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Government to review new college incorporation process after report claims PROCAT project was ‘successful’

The process for establishing new FE colleges could be out of date, the government has warned after reviewing the first general FE college incorporation in more than 20 years. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has published a report outlining how Essex-based independent learning provider Prospects Learning Foundation (PLF) became Prospects College of […]

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Wolf review: 20 of 27 recommendations implemented, government claims

Most of Professor Alison Wolf’s recommendations for reform of 14 to 19 vocational education have been implemented, the government has claimed. The Department for Education has issued its final progress report on Professor Wolf’s 27 recommendations, which were initially outlined in her landmark 2011 Review of Vocational Education, claiming 20 of the points have become […]

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Edition 128: Denis Hird, Jon Graham, Chris Bilsland & John Landeryou

A decade’s career in the chief executive hotseat has come to an end for Denis Hird at Kent-based independent learning provider JTL. He has stepped down and is due to be replaced at the end of next month by former Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) managing director Jon Graham. Ian Livsey, JTL […]

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Feltag review says leaders have power to ‘make tech happen’

Further education leaders must be at the forefront of improving technology use in the sector and implementing the recommendations of the Further Education Learning Technology Action Group (Feltag), the government has said. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) published an update on progress made by the sector in the six months since it published […]

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Funding fears as leps document reveals ‘relationship’ requirement

Colleges could lose out on funding if local enterprise partnerships (Leps) don’t engage with them, Association of Colleges chief executive Martin Doel has warned after the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) published new guidance. In a document entitled Local Enterprise Partnerships: increasing their influence on skills budgets, the SFA said future funding agreements would require colleges […]

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How to ‘detoxify’ a grade four-rated college

Ian Clinton took over at Stockport College in the wake of an Ofsted inadequate rating and within a year his work was recognised with a grade three result. Here he outlines key areas of focus in the quest to improve as he prepares to pass on the principal baton in April. Taking on the principal’s […]

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Commissioner visits first two local authority providers

The FE Commissioner has made his first two visits to inspect local authority provision, FE Week can reveal. Dr David Collins visited Lancashire Adult Learning (LAL), run by Lancashire County Council, and Warrington Borough Council last month to review adult learning after grade four Ofsted inspection results. The commissioner’s powers of intervention extend to FE […]

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Careers advice hotline brought under one roof

Careers advice hotline services for young people and adults are to be brought under one roof after Serco was awarded a £6m Skills Funding Agency (SFA) contract to deliver both. Serco, which previously ran the National Careers Service (NCS) advice line for adults, will also take up the service for young people, previously delivered by […]

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