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Engage with colleges, Wilshaw tells employers

Ofsted boss Sir Michael Wilshaw has challenged employers to engage more with colleges in an effort to bridge the skills gap. The education watchdog chief inspector said businesses should consider apprenticeships as the answer to their vacancies problems. Speaking to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI)’s East of England education conference in Cambridge on Tuesday […]

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Lambeth College walkout

Staff at Lambeth College have voted in favour of a new walkout over employment contracts — just six months after launching an indefinite strike only to return to work just before the summer holidays. The possible action by members of the University and College Union (UCU) includes another indefinite strike, a one-day strike or a […]

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Traineeship news offers welcome break from ‘wholesale change’

Proposals to change the way traineeship providers are funded were rejected following the government’s eight-week consultation on the issue. Andy Gannon explains what this, plus some of the changes that were sanctioned, means for the sector. Amid ongoing media rumours of yet more pressure on budgets after the next election and a looming Autumn Statement, […]

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‘Don’t abandon expensive subjects to balance books,’ FE Commissioner warns

Colleges have been warned against abandoning expensive subjects like science and engineering as they attempt to balance their books. The warning comes from FE Commissioner Dr David Collins in a report on his first year in office. Dr Collins, who took up post in November last year, warns that colleges already in tough financial situations […]

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Gazelle founders stand firm amid college withdrawal

Gazelle’s five founder colleges have re-affirmed their commitment to the organisation with the announcement that one college was set to quit the group amid claims it could spend membership fees better elsewhere. Gloucestershire College, which has more than 7,000 learners and dished out around £130,000 in membership fees and staff training costs to Gazelle since […]

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FE Commissioner gets five ex-principal advisers

These are the five former principals and one ex-vice principal that make up the new intake of advisers for FE Commissioner Dr David Collins (pictured front), FE Week can reveal. Phil Frier, Dr Beri Hare, John Hogg, Steve Hutchinson, Chris Jones and Lynne Craig have won posts at the commissioner’s office. Their appointments take the […]

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Sixth form college falls two grades to inadequate

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 […]

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Party differences on FE and skills prove difficult to spot

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 […]

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Unified CIF ‘not money-saving exercise’

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 […]

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