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College wins Morrisons’ contract

The contract to deliver the country’s biggest apprenticeship programme has been won by NCG (formerly Newcastle College Group). The Academy Apprenticeship and qualifications programme of supermarket giant Morrisons will change hands from current provider Elmfield to NCG from August. The contract will be managed by the college’s Intraining division, which works with more than 20,000 […]

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Coventry principal to leave after Ofsted inadequate

The principal of City College Coventry, labelled inadequate by Ofsted, is to leave as soon an interim replacement can be found, FE Week can reveal. Paul Taylor is expected to have been replaced by July, a college spokesperson said. After 16 years in the job and two previous poor inspections, Mr Taylor was hit with grade […]

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Adult college ‘changes lives’

Working Men’s College, a specialist designated institution in North London, is celebrating an ‘outstanding’ Ofsted grade. Rebecca Cooney reports  When Ofsted published its report late last month, Working Men’s College principal Satnam Gill (pictured right) described the result as a “real tribute to the amazing work” by teachers and students. He said: “On leaving, the […]

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Traineeships launched, but only for some

The 11-month wait for a government outline of traineeships is over — but “disappointment” has been expressed about who can take them. They were first proposed by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg in June last year to help 16 to 24-year-olds gain work-related skills and attitudes. But it wasn’t until today that the Skills Minister […]

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Coming back from a grade four blow

No one wants to be labelled inadequate by Ofsted, says Lynn Merilion, who describes the journey to improvement after it happened to her college earlier this year The days when Ofsted gave colleges three weeks to prepare for an inspection are long gone. This time round, we got a phone call on the Thursday of […]

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Provider’s ‘appalling’ pass rate

Just 6,375 out of 13,420 adult retail apprentices succeeded England’s biggest apprenticeship provider has come under fire from the chair of a government watchdog after “appalling” figures revealed less than half of its retail and wholesale leavers qualified last year. Just 47.5 per cent of Elmfield Training’s 13,420 leavers in the sector aged 25 or […]

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Governor backs defiant Taylor

‘It’s a comfort to be asked to stay on,’ says Coventry principal The chair of City College Coventry’s board of governors has refused to sack his principal after a disastrous inspection result. The college was branded inadequate — a grade four result — across each of the education watchdog’s headline fields. The 8,000-learner college was […]

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Harlow tops the tables, again

Harlow College has celebrated the highest general FE college qualification success rate in England for the second year running. The Essex college achieved an all-age and all-duration success rate of 94 per cent for the year ending July 2012, meaning 10,171 qualifications were achieved out of 10,820 starts. Principal Colin Hindmarch, who retires this week, […]

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New audit reviews cause ‘major concern’

A new audit system from the Skills Funding Agency has caused “major concern” within the FE sector. Accountability reviews — described as “a key element of the agency’s intervention strategy” — will consider not just financial management, but also governance and strategic oversight arrangements. The announcement, which sources have told FE Week came as a […]

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