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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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GCSEs need ‘flexibility and functionality

Ofsted’s careers guidance boss has called for “flexibility and functionality” in English and maths GCSEs. Karen Adriaanse, the education watchdog’s national lead for careers guidance, told MPs on the House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee how she thought the government could improve adult literacy and numeracy. “One of the things that government […]

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Learners could compare colleges and schools under Ofsted proposals

Ofsted has today launched a consultation on much-anticipated proposals that would allow learners to compare the post-16 performance of general FE colleges with schools. The education watchdog is looking at introducing separate judgements for sixth forms in its school inspection reports. As reported in FE Week last year, the extra grade would reverse a decision […]

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Peter Mayhew-Smith, principal, Kingston College and Carshalton College

“The trouble with me is, I reckon I’m probably one of your most boring interviewees,” Peter Mayhew-Smith tells me with an apologetic grin. “I have travelled almost zero miles in my career.” He means this literally — he was born in Teddington, just two miles away from Kingston College, across the Thames, and 10 miles […]

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