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The Education Act 2011 has been widely heralded as a positive move for the FE sector, providing colleges with significant new freedoms to develop and deliver more learner-focused services. But, like any new legislation, the Act has brought with it a range of new challenges. Elizabeth Delaney, associate at business law firm DWF, looks at […]
Opinion
Mick Fletcher, visiting research fellow at the Institute of Education and member of the Policy Consortium, casts a critical eye over Ofsted’s new Learner View website. Ofsted has officially launched its Learner View website — an on-line mechanism for collecting feedback from students about the institutions they attend. The Daily Telegraph was predictably delighted. Under […]
Toni Pearce, vice president FE at the National Union of Students adds her voice of support to Ofsted’s new website. It is welcome that Ofsted has recognised the need to review its methods for consulting learners. Further education is rapidly changing and the National Union of Students has been lobbying for a long time for […]
Ofsted has hit back at fears that its new Trip Adviser-style website for rating colleges could be open to abuse. “There are always going to be concerns that there might be a campaign against a provider, but our security system means individual learners have to register,” said Ofsted’s national director for learning and skills, Matthew […]
News
Unrealistic self-assessments with little or no critical insight, plus unexpected job cuts, show up time and again among poorly performing colleges, according to a new Ofsted report. How Colleges Improve also warned colleges about the dangers of paying too much attention to building projects and mergers. The report, which was released last week, also highlighted […]
More than 500 jobs have been saved by a college and a training provider after another training provider behind around 10,000 apprenticeships across the country went into administration. Liverpool Community College teamed up with Derbyshire-based provider 3AAA to buy the “majority” of business from First4Skills. The Ellesmere Port firm had been allocated £19.8m by the Skills […]
Poor inspection grades at colleges already suspected of performing badly are hiding a general downward trend in results, chief college inspector Mike Davis has told FE Week. The principal officer for FE colleges at Her Majesty’s Inspectorate said that a range of issues that kept cropping up were affecting results. He conceded colleges considered at […]
Uncategorized
Kate Green, director of business development at the 157 Group, responds to Sir Michael Wilshaw on behalf of the 157 Group International Network It would be interesting to understand the basis for Sir Michael’s warning in the last edition of FE Week. Is he concerned our FE colleges are being overrun with foreign students, or […]
Professor Daniel Khan OBE, chief executive of OCN London, offers a response to Sir Michael Wilshaw’s ‘Deptford not Delhi’ speech ir Michael Wilshaw has a reputation for making controversial statements, and his speech at AoC’s conference this month has once again thrown him into the media spotlight. The Ofsted chief inspector warned of the dangers […]
