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Charting the progress of a new FE success status

Chartered Status has been on the cards for FE for more than a year with Skills Minister Matthew Hancock having appointed Lord Lingfield to head a panel that would dish out the award. The Tory peer provides his first update on Chartered Status progress.   In March 2013 I was asked by Skills Minister Matthew […]

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Traineeship figures ‘deeply disappointing’

Figures showing that an average of just 127 people started on the government’s new youth unemployment traineeship scheme every week have been described as “deeply disappointing”. Shadow Junior Education Minister Rushanara Ali hit out after official figures showed that the programme saw 3,300 starts in the six months following its launch in August last year. […]

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Indies could face FoI ‘requirements’

Independent learning providers could become subject to Freedom of Information (FoI) Act “requirements” under government proposals. Firms that “carry out public functions” figure in the plans of Justice Minister Simon Hughes (pictured), meaning that Skills Funding Agency contractors, along with Education Funding Agency contractors, could be affected. He told MPs in the House of Commons: […]

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Lingfield reveals FE institute plans

Chartered status for FE providers is just months away, the chair of the new Institution for Further Education has exclusively told FE Week. The not-for-profit limited company has been given responsibility by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) for developing and launching the quality mark. Its chair, Lord Lingfield, confirmed to FE Week […]

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Staff unsure of under fire principal’s future

Staff at a college in the South West are in the dark about the future of their principal after an internal memo was sent out saying she would not be returning this term. A new acting principal has replaced Wiltshire College’s Di Dale, but a spokesperson declined to comment on whether she would be returning. […]

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Traineeship figures revealed for first time

The government has said traineeships were “off to a good start” as it revealed 3,300 starts in  six months. It is the first time the number of starts on the government’s new flagship youth unemployment programme has been published and comes just over a week after official figures showed 912,000 young people aged 16 to 24 […]

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Is FE and skills on board the Lep drive and does it even need to be?

Local enterprise partnerships seemed to be the next big thing for FE and skills in late 2012 when Lord Heseltine called for a single funding pot that included the adult skills budget. Fears emerged that a lack of FE and skills representation among Lep boards might see sector cash used elsewhere, on infrastructure projects, for […]

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Putting English and maths ‘front and centre’

Among the areas of Ofsted praise heaped upon North Somerset’s outstanding Weston College earlier this year Foundation English. Dave Trounce explains how the college putting core skills at the centre of the whole college curriculum. The flurry of excitement which greeted the post-Christmas announcement that our Foundation English programme at Weston College was deemed by […]

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Colleges and schools to get ‘robust comparisons’ regime

Further education leaders have welcomed Ofsted plans that would allow parents and learners to compare the post-16 performance of school sixth forms with that of colleges. A separate inspection grade for school sixth forms could be introduced under much-anticipated proposals put out to consultation by the education watchdog. An Ofsted spokesperson had told FE Week […]

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