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A college path to Saudi Arabia

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 […]

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Future of fracking training in the hands of Blackpool and The Fylde College

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 […]

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Further FE cuts ‘disastrous’, sector warns

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 […]

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College follows commissioner’s first merger advice

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 […]

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Strode scores outstanding clean sweep

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 […]

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Local authorities losing Neets track say MPs

Participation in education, employment and training among 16, 17 and 18-year-olds will not improve unless the government tackles problems with young people slipping through the net, a senior MP has warned. During a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee’s inquiry into 16 to 18 participation, chair Margaret Hodge (pictured) warned Department for Education (DfE) Permanent […]

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Sixth form college bosses’ £500 ‘incentive’ raises ethics query

Concerns about the “ethical use of funding” have been raised after a sixth form college started advertising £500 incentives in a bid to lure high-achieving learners to its proposed new free school sixth form. New College Pontefract applied to the Department for Education (DfE) last month to set up New College Doncaster, which would open […]

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What is the safeguarding duty and what happens if providers get it wrong?

Ofsted inspectors recently gave a 16 to 19 independent learning provider an inadequate rating having discovered it failing to meet its statutory requirements on safeguarding learners. Geraldine Swanton explains the safeguarding learners issue. A positive duty to promote and safeguard the welfare of children was imposed on FE colleges and schools by the Education Act […]

Opinion

Edition 117: Dr Jan Edrich, Tony Lau-Walker and Lawrence Vincent

Former Association of South East Colleges (AOSEC) chief executive Dr Jan Edrich has been appointed principal at Hampshire’s Eastleigh College. She takes over from Tony Lau-Walker CBE who retired after 17 years at the college — and two years after leading it to an Ofsted outstanding grade. Dr Edrich has worked at the college as […]

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