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Outstanding London provider achieves top marks across the board from Ofsted

East London Advanced Technology Training (ELATT) has scored top marks across the board to secure a grade one rating from Ofsted inspectors. The ‘outstanding’ report on the provider, which has 260 learners, was published today (February 20). ELATT, which received a grade two rating following its last inspection in April 2009, achieved top marks in […]

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Ofsted halving number of FE reports per year

Ofsted has announced plans to halve the number of times it publishes official FE statistics to two a year in response to a month-long consultation. The consultation, which opened on August 11 on the education watchdog’s website, received 22 responses — 73 per cent of which agreed with the proposal to reduce the number of […]

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Colleges ‘not meeting employer needs’ on digital skills, Lords warn

Further education colleges are failing to meet employer needs when it comes to digital skills, an influential group of Peers has warned. In its latest report, Make or Break: The UK’s digital future (pictured below right), the House of Lords digital skills committee claimed that although the FE sector was “best placed” to respond to England’s […]

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College is prepared to take on learners after academy trust drops plans for school sixth form

The principal of an FE college is planning to take-on students left stranded after an academy trust dropped plans to open a specialist STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) school sixth form in Croydon. STEM Academy Trust had originally planned to open the school sixth-form at the former South Norwood police station, in Croydon, in […]

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Edition 127: Nichola Newton, Paul Hafren, Penny Wycherley & Colette Cohen

Warrington Collegiate came under the principalship of Nichola Newton this month. She took over from Paul Hafren, who retired at Christmas after 12 years as principal. She joined from Leeds City College where she was deputy principal, having previously served in senior roles at Runshaw College, Nelson and Colne College and Ashton Sixth Form College. […]

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College told to give up inadequate-rated academy

An FE college in Suffolk has been ordered to hand over its 11 to 16 academy to new sponsors after the school was placed in special measures following an inadequate Ofsted rating. Suffolk New College, which runs the New Academies Trust (NAT), was told by the Department for Education (DfE) to transfer Suffolk New Academy […]

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‘Devil in the detail’ warning on Ofsted’s new CIF

Ofsted has been warned that the “devil will be in the detail” when it applies a new common inspection framework (CIF) across FE, early years and schools from September. It was exclusively revealed in FE Week in August that the education watchdog planned for inspections to be “harmonised” under one CIF. And Ofsted said on […]

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President Atkins reveals concern over falling performance

Association of Colleges (AoC) president Richard Atkins has told of his concern at in depth research by FE Week that uncovered how the sector’s Ofsted inspection performance was plummeting. The results of research, which featured in last week’s newspaper, showed the proportion of general FE and tertiary colleges inspected so far in 2014/15 and graded […]

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‘Once young people have become Neet we’ve already failed’

Amid the response to a report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on young people not in education, employment or training (Neets) crucial issues were overlooked, says Amy Lalla. It’s heartening to see MPs on the powerful PAC turning their attention to Neets, but there are three key issues that I was disappointed didn’t receive […]

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