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The DNA of good apprenticeships

As the sector celebrates apprenticeships, Phil Romain looks at what makes for a good one. My passion for apprenticeships stems from my own experiences. I was fortunate to have had an outstanding apprenticeship in a company where many of the directors and senior managers were ex-apprentices themselves. This led me to a career in engineering, […]

Opinion

The DNA of good apprenticeships

As the sector celebrates apprenticeships, Phil Romain looks at what makes for a good one. My passion for apprenticeships stems from my own experiences. Some apprenticeship schemes I have inspected are world-beaters and, dare I say, better than Germany’s — but far too many are not” I was fortunate to have had an outstanding apprenticeship […]

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Dame Jackie Fisher, chief executive, Barnfield Federation

Dame Jackie Fisher, describes herself as “an outsider to the system looking in”. Coming from the well-known former chief of one of the largest college groups in England, NGC (formerly Newcastle College Group), who was named a dame for her services to education in 2010, it’s a bit of a surprise. “I don’t like rules […]

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Two years after pilot success, at last it’s official — Exeter College is outstanding

Exeter College need no longer bite its lip after watching Walsall College take credit for the first ‘outstanding’ Ofsted result under a tough new inspection regime nearly a year after it had already achieved the feat. The Devon college today won outstanding status having earned the top grade in early 2012 after a pilot no-notice inspection […]

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Is linking funding to outcomes more trouble than it’s worth?

Using learner destination data to determine funding for FE is “fraught with difficulty,” according to Geoffrey Stanton. The recent Skills Funding Statement indicates that the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) is considering “how funding can be more strongly linked to outcomes in future”. In post-19 FE and training, funding is, of course, already […]

Opinion

Outstanding college rapped over academy standards

An academy backed by grade one-rated Walsall College has been warned by the government about “unacceptably low” standards. The Secretary of State and I are therefore satisfied that the standards of performance at Mirus Academy, Walsall, are unacceptably low,” Schools Minister Lord Nash has written to Walsall College Academies Trust chair Jatinder Sharma (pictured), who […]

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Tech group urges minister for online content quota

All publicly-funded FE and skills courses should have a minimum of 10 per cent online content by 2015/16, a government technology task force has recommended. The Further Education Technology Action Group (Feltag) report, unveiled in draft at the Education Innovation Conference in Manchester, also said there should be incentives to move the online course content […]

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Provider told ‘stop running our quals’ by NCFE

A Warwickshire-based provider has been ordered to stop running qualifications from a leading awarding organisation after it investigated allegations of malpractice. NCFE has notified us of the outcome of its investigation. This is a matter for NCFE and Bright.” Bright Assessing, which has boasted a pass rate of between 95 and 100 per cent, has […]

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Outstanding college gets government warning over academy

An academy backed by grade one-rated Walsall College has been warned by the government about “unacceptably low” standards. Schools Minister Lord Nash has written to Walsall College Academies Trust chair Jatinder Sharma, who is also the college principal, with a “pre-warning notice” over standards at the Mirus Academy. He warned that the sponsor college, which just under […]

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