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Gove seeks college help after latest UTC blow

Education Secretary Gove asks Bedford College to save UTC All Ofsted UTC results inadequate or requires improvement ‘Too early to critisize UTC programme’ — UTCs’ spokesperson   Education Secretary Michael Gove has called on a general FE college in Bedfordshire to save the latest University Technical College (UTC) to suffer Ofsted grading disappointment. A spokesperson […]

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Former principal of Warwickshire College steps in at troubled Lewisham and Southwark College (Lesoco)

Lesoco has brought in the former chair of the 157 Group to take over as interim consultant principal following the departure of Maxine Room. Ioan Morgan, who will be officially employed by the Association of Colleges’ (AoC) recruitment arm AoC Create, will take up the role at the college on Monday (June 9). Mr Morgan was principal […]

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Colleges and schools to put performance measures on website home pages

Colleges and schools will have to show key performance data on their website home pages under Department for Education (DfE) proposals that went out to consultation today. The at-a-glance post-16 measures will include students’ progress in academic subjects or Tech Levels as well as students’ average grades in each category. Colleges and school sixth forms would […]

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Commissioner details fail to stop ATL questions

Questions remain over the role of the FE Commissioner despite the government having published a detailed outline of the intervention process. Association of Teachers and Lecturers general secretary Dr Mary Bousted (pictured) has accused the government of “re-inventing the wheel” when it comes to quality assurance in FE. She said: “We have serious questions about […]

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Teen recruitment change from EFA

Changes to direct recruitment of 14 to 16-year-olds will not make it easier for colleges to qualify, the Education Funding Agency (EFA) said. In a bulletin issued for colleges considering taking on younger learners in September, the EFA said eligibility requirements would be “unchanged other than for those colleges with an Ofsted overall effectiveness grade […]

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AELP Annual National Conference 2014

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16-page supplement covering AELP Annual Conference 2014 in partnership with OCR. Click here to download (10 mb) Introduction Apprenticeship reform was always expected to dominate the agenda at the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) 2014 annual conference, and that was certainly the case on day one. It […]

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Edition 104: Guy Adams and Andy Welsh

Somerset sixth form college governors’ chair has been made a National Leader of Governance. Guy Adams was given the two-year role with the National College for Teaching and Leadership, which is an executive agency of the Department for Education, in honour of his work at the Ofsted grade one-rated Richard Huish College. He has been […]

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Looking backwards, looking forwards: policy and possibilities

As I write what my calendar tells me is my last FE Insider of 2013/14, the words ‘what a year it has been’ feel inadequate. A highly experienced colleague said recently that he’d never known a period quite like the one FE seems to be going through at the moment. I began this calendar year […]

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Process document offers glimpse of inner-workings of new FE Commissioner role

Providers have been offered an insight into the work of FE Commissioner Dr David Collins with the publication of a new document. The document, Intervention in Further Education: The strengthened intervention process, sets out information about the process Dr Collins and his advisers follow when they intervene with providers. It also includes detail of plans to publish […]

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