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Governors called to account for ‘weak’ learning provision

The spotlight of Ofsted attention shone for the first time on prison education with the watchdog’s latest annual report — and it didn’t make for positive reading. Alexandra Marks looks at what’s going wrong behind locked doors. It was a challenging year for prison education that saw the new Offender Learning and Skills Service contract […]

Opinion

Leading London college tumbles to inadequate

One of London’s largest FE colleges, and a former outstanding one, has crashed to a grade four Ofsted rating. LeSoCo, a 17,600-learner college in South London, has been graded inadequate after its latest inspection, less than two months ago. While we fully accept the need for improvements in some areas of our teaching and learning […]

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Who told Sir Michael Wilshaw that Leps have all the answers?

Ofsted Chief Inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw’s second annual report on FE and skills pointed the sector in the direction of greater heeding of local enterprise partnerships. But to what extent is this deference warranted, asks Mick Fletcher. The Chief Inspector’s annual report on FE and skills follows a now predictable format. It contains some useful […]

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Asha Khemka, principal, West Nottinghamshire College

Asha Khemka was always certain that one day she would be “somebody”, but she says there was never a plan. However, determination and success appear to be in the Khemka family genes. At the tender age of 33, her grandfather became the youngest judge to ever be appointed in the Indian state of Bihar, before […]

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Commissioner strips second principal of powers

The FE Commissioner has slapped a second grade four college with administered status as an Ofsted monitoring report blasted its action plan for lack of results. The senior management team at Stockport College, which fell from grade one at the end of September, has been stripped of control over staffing and finance following a review […]

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Agency rule change allows grade three providers to keep taking on trainees

Providers that drop to a grade three Ofsted rating will be allowed to keep taking on new trainees under new government guidelines. Providers that fell below a good (grade two) rating previously had to stop taking on new trainees, but they could let existing learners finish their programmes. Now providers that were outstanding (grade one) […]

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FE Week most read news in 2013

FE Week is a printed newspaper and every edition (along with supplements) is sent to subscribers. If you do not already subscribe (tut tut) you can still benefit from £25 off an annual subscription in 2014. Find out more here (be quick!): http://feweek.co.uk/subscription/ Much of the newspaper content also goes online and in 2013 this […]

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First FE Commissioner job results in administered status for K College after Ofsted inadequate grade

Troubled K College has been put into administered status after becoming the first college to come under scrutiny from the FE Commissioner following the damning Ofsted report, published this morning. Skills Minister Matthew Hancock sent in commissioner David Collins and his team of advisers to review the college before the education watchdog’s report, which resulted in […]

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Optimism in Ofsted report comes with warning of providers not meeting local economy needs

Local employer needs are not being met by the FE and skills sector, according to this year’s Ofsted annual report. Despite higher expectations of students and improved teaching and learning providing “grounds for optimism” about the sector, it was delivering “too much provision that is not responsive to local employment needs”. “This provision is therefore […]

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