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More colleges must pass the FE Commissioner test before guidance on ending his intervention, says BIS

Principals will have to wait for more struggling colleges to emerge successfully from the FE Commissioner process before the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) publishes guidelines on how intervention ends. A report published today (March 25) by BIS, entitled An Evaluation of the Further Education Commissioner-led intervention process summary report, made a number […]

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NCFE and LifeSkills get Sunday Times Top 100 recognition

An awarding organisation and training company are celebrating after being recognised among the best places to work according to prestigious lists compiled by The Sunday Times. Newcastle-based NCFE was ranked 70th on The Sunday Times top 100 charities to work for, while Basildon-based independent learning provider LifeSkills features at number 94 in the paper’s list […]

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Government cuts could ‘decimate’ adult education by 2020, AoC warns

Continued cuts to the adult skills budget risk wiping out adult education and training in England within five years, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has warned after research showed 190,000 course places could be lost in 2015/16 alone. The AoC has published research based on data from its 336 member colleges which points to a […]

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Inadequate-rated college follows through on FE Commissioner’s merger advice — leaving nearly 100 jobs in the balance

Norton Radstock College’s proposed merger with City of Bath College will be made official next month in a move that could mean nearly 100 job losses. They will become Bath College on April 6 following the advice of FE Commissioner Dr David Collins, who visited Norton Radstock College last summer after Ofsted gave it a grade four […]

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More changes needed to build on success of traineeships

Stewart Segal looks at the traineeship programme in light of a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) one-year review. There has always been a range of programmes designed to help young unemployed or under-employed young people into work. The names of the programmes will be familiar to many — E2E, Programme-Led Apprenticeships, Access to […]

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How to help vocational tutors bear the English and maths burden

Making learners who don’t achieve at least grade C in their English and math GCSEs is a requirement not only of them but also the numeracy and literacy teaching skills of their post-16 tutors explains Andrew Harden. Many of our best vocational teachers have moved into colleges from the workplace where they have built up […]

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Edition 132: Richard Atkins, David Henley, David Lawrence, Clive Bound & Jan Hodges

Exeter College principal Richard Atkins has announced his retirement from the post at the end of 2015. The current Association of Colleges president joined Exeter College as its leader in 2002, and last year took it to Ofsted grade one — having already achieved the feat, but in a pilot of the current common inspection […]

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Ofsted hits back at ‘not fit for purpose’ criticism

Ofsted has defended itself against criticism in an Association of Colleges (AoC) paper that branded the education watchdog as “not fit for purpose” and “driven by political considerations”. The paper, written by FE consultant Mick Fletcher, went on to call for a “slimmed down version” of Ofsted for under-19 FE provision and a new system […]

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Learners need new providers after inadequate ratings

Hundreds of learners will be hoping for new providers after the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) said it would tear up two training contracts — forcing the closure of one provider and criticism of the decision to axe funding. Both Four Counties Training Limited (FCT), in West London, and Venture Learning Limited (VL), in Greater Manchester, […]

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