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Hartlepool Sixth Form College has crashed from a good to inadequate Ofsted rating. It received a grade two rating in June 2010, but a report published on Thursday (November 13), based on an inspection in September, gave it the lowest possible mark. The report said “too few students stay to complete AS courses or progress […]
News
Association of Colleges (AoC) chief executive Martin Doel took time out from his preparations for the AoC annual conference in Birmingham to speak to FE Week editor Chris Henwood. He talked about his thoughts on the political parties in the run-up to the general election next year and also answered questions on a range of […]
Ofsted’s eight-week consultation on bringing an end to its independent FE and skills inspection regime comes to a close next month. All education inspections would be “harmonised” under the proposed common inspection framework (CIF) for nurseries, schools and colleges from September next year, as revealed exclusively by FE Week at the start of August. It […]
A Midland college has been warned about its “hand-to-mouth” financial situation by FE Commissioner Dr David Collins. Dr Collins visited Birmingham’s 12,000-learner Bournville College (pictured), which has a current Skills Funding Agency (SFA) allocation of £8,495,746, in August after it was issued with a financial notice of concern by the in April. In his report, […]
Competition, finance and government support are just three of the factors to have played a part in the process of Lincoln College Group opening two sites in Saudi Arabia this summer, explains Simon Plummer. Like many other FE colleges The Lincoln College Group has been operating internationally for some time following a traditional model of […]
Opinion
The training of engineers for the fracking industry will be led by Blackpool and The Fylde College after the government awarded the contract for another national college. The college has been unveiled as a hub for the National College for Onshore Oil and Gas, which is being established by UKOOG, the representative body for the […]
Further cuts to FE would be “disastrous,” sector leaders have warned amid claims another £48bn could be slashed from government budgets. Sector leaders have warned that FE cannot cope with another round of harsh cuts after already shouldering the burden of a 35 per cent cut in the adult skills budget and a 17.5 per […]
The first of three colleges that FE Commissioner Dr David Collins suggested would struggle to maintain their long-term independence has agreed to a merger. Dr Collins concluded that Devon-based Bicton College, which was visited by the commissioner in March, needed to merge or form a federation with another institution following Skills Funding Agency concern about […]
A Somerset college has scored a clean sweep of outstanding headline ratings in a glowing Ofsted report. Strode College, in Street, became the first college this academic year to achieve a grade one result — and the ninth since the new Common Inspection Framework was introduced in September 2012. It got grade ones in each […]
