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Learning Smarter is a revolutionary new web application using the latest mobile technology to improve learners’ experience in colleges, schools and training providers. Learners use technology already in their possession – their smartphone or tablet (or any device that can access the web) – to ask and answer questions, and also to evaluate and reflect […]
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Wrestling fan, booker of TV celebrities and former disco promoter — it’s a picture of North Somerset principal Paul Phillips that not many will recognise. Mention instead the honorary doctorate of letters from Bath Spa University for promoting higher education in FE, an Ofsted additional inspector’s post, or the 13 years he’s spent at the […]
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A Liverpool-based provider that trained around 700 learners has gone into administration, putting 70 jobs at risk. Scientiam appointed administrators from Mazars LLP on Monday, February 4. It held a £2.5m contract with the Skills Funding Agency and had up to five subcontractors. A statement issued by Mazars, which is looking for organisations to take […]
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Tough new rules forcing prime contractors to go public with information on their deals with providers are to be introduced by the Skills Funding Agency. See paragraphs 342 to 346 on pages 79 to 81 in the Funding Rules 2013/14. Regulations that will come into force from August will require primes to publish details of their […]
The proposed merger of two colleges is being investigated over concerns they may not have followed correct procedure, FE Week can reveal. A six-week formal consultation on the plans for Birmingham Metropolitan College and Stourbridge College launched on January 18. The merger would see the 12,500-student Stourbridge College dissolve on May 31 with its property, […]
A London college that admitted success rates could have been exaggerated by up to 10 per cent two years ago has been hit with an Ofsted grade fall. Croydon College was rated as in need of improvement, having been graded good following inspection in July 2009. In 2011, the college’s then new principal, Frances Wadsworth, […]
The government has been urged to “bite the bullet” and call Ofsted in to inspect careers guidance services after concerns over the quality and objectivity of advice given to young people. Association of Colleges policy director Joy Mercer said the watchdog should look at careers guidance during school inspections following a report on the subject […]
A host of UK colleges are hoping a new initiative in India will allow them to capitalise on their FE expertise. A number of senior management members made the journey east for its launch and were joined by FE Week editor Nick Linford and reporter, Shane Mann. On first hearing that 30 FE colleges were […]
The Education Select Committee looked at the issue of careers guidance and produced a report that questioned the impartiality of schools now tasked with providing the service. Graham Hoyle OBE puts forward his suggestions to remedy the problem. Lord Baker of the Baker-Dearing Trust has proposed that at age 14, pupils should make a choice […]
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