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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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Party politics worry over new quality mark

Senior FE and skills figures have told of their concerns that the sector’s new chartered status quality mark could become a political football or simply “sink without trace”. In a random survey of colleges and independent learning providers (ILPs) from across the country, FE Week has uncovered serious concerns about chartered status, which will be […]

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Principal vows to protect learners from strike

The principal of Lambeth College has vowed to protect learners from an indefinite strike planned this week — but conceded industrial action during exams season was “particularly disruptive”. Mark Silverman (pictured) said he would not let the college’s 15,000 learners be affected by the University College Union (UCU) demonstration and that “most classes” would still […]

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Scores of colleges ‘interested’ in career college opportunities

More than 40 colleges have expressed an interest in opening a Career College since proposals for the new form of 14 to 19 education institutions were put forward in October, FE Week can reveal. Career Colleges Trust chief executive Ruth Gilbert (pictured) said she had been approached by colleges and also employers about setting up […]

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