Search Results for

The following 3568 results have been found to match your search query:

‘ofsted’

Embracing Ofsted as a ‘fresh pair of eyes’

Ofsted and data can both hold fear for principals, but Chris Thomson says embracing both can provide a path to success. With a fear of being shunned by my peers, I actually view Ofsted as a free consulting service, which all colleges should embrace. I’ve been principal at Brighton Hove & Sussex Sixth Form College […]

Opinion

College steps in to save apprentices

More than 160 engineering apprentices are set to be transferred to City College Norwich from an independent learning provider facing closure. The college said the East Anglian Group for Industrial Training (Eagit), based in Norwich and formed in 1967, is set to close in July. The college will take on 146 level three and 22 […]

News

Grade four LeSoCo gets new Ofsted blow

A large London college has been criticised in a follow-up report on its inadequate Oftsed rating. LeSoCo, a 17,000-learner college in South London, got grade four by Ofsted in January. A follow-up monitoring visit was carried out in March and the report has now been published. The original inspection criticised teaching standards and said improvements […]

News

Indy wins college plan go ahead

An Essex-based independent learning provider is one step closer to opening the first new FE college in 20 years after receiving the backing of the government. Prospects Learning Foundation has revealed it has been given permission by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to incorporate as an FE college. The independent learning provider (ILP), […]

News

Tributes paid to ‘FE warrior’ Mary Rimington MBE

Tributes have been paid to the former deputy principal of City and Islington College after she died from cancer. Mary Rimington, aged 65, passed away on February 15 and a service was held in her honour at the college’s Centre for Lifelong Learning, in Finsbury Park, on Saturday (April 5). She worked in the sector […]

News

Former deputy Lorna Fitzjohn to replace Coffey in Ofsted FE lead role

Ofsted’s former deputy director of further education and skills has been given the director’s role after Matthew Coffey was promoted, the watchdog has announced. Lorna Fitzjohn previously served as deputy director for FE and was more recently director for the West Midlands, a job she will continue with alongside her new role. She has also […]

News

£100m classroom satellite thermostat plan a “waste of money”

NB – this article was originally published as an April Fools story. Plans to spend £100m installing satellite-linked thermostats in every college classroom in England to improve learning conditions have been labelled a “waste of money” and symptomatic of a “nanny state”. Skills minister Matthew Hancock announced yesterday that the Department for Education would be […]

News

Promoting the debate on what a successful college looks like

Nobody more than college principals knows the wide-ranging effects of an Ofsted rating. Lynne Sedgmore makes the case for a review of what it means to be considered a successful college. LeSoCo is the fourth college to voluntarily resign from the 157 Group having been rated by Ofsted as inadequate and it is with […]

Opinion

What has happened to 14 to 19 vocational education?

Three years ago this month, the Wolf Report on the future of vocational education for 14 to 19-year-olds was heralded as a vehicle for radical change in the FE sector, writes Freddie Whittaker. Professor Alison Wolf’s 27 recommendations called for a huge shake-up in careers advice and qualifications, among other things, and her ideas were […]

News