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Focus feature: Women principals leaving a legacy in FE

This year numerous top female college principals are stepping down after giving their professional lives to the FE sector. Jess Staufenberg sits down with three of them, all of whom have been awarded OBEs and been nationally recognised for their pioneering work. What are the highs and lows of leadership? Karen Dobson, chief executive, Newcastle […]

Feature, News, Long read

No T Level achievement rates until wave 3 students complete

But national-level results for T Levels will be published from the get-go, with the first set of outcomes set to be released alongside A-levels in August

News, T Levels

ESFA finally launches Tripadvisor-style feedback feature for apprentices

Apprentices can now give anonymous feedback and the results will appear on Find Apprenticeship Training

News, Apprenticeships

Queen’s Birthday Honours 2022: Who received what in FE?

Picking up the damehood was Ann Limb, who has over 25 years of experience in FE and was appointed as City & Guilds’ first female chair last year

News

7 ways to challenge college culture and get back to ‘good’

In 2019 I left higher education to become chief executive of the UK’s biggest national FE college group, comprising seven colleges. The year previously, Ofsted had downgraded NCG to ‘requires improvement’. A significant step change was required for the colleges all to reach the threshold for a ‘good’ grade. NCG’s two challenges were sustainable financial […]

Opinion, Ofsted

Plans to de-merge Lewisham College from NCG revealed

NCG and London South East Colleges are understood to be in discussions about the future of FE in Lewisham.

News, Colleges

City and Guilds-owned apprenticeship provider falls two Ofsted grades

Gen2 is no longer ‘outstanding’ after a decade without inspection

News, Ofsted

SEND college jumps from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘outstanding’ in three years

‘From the moment learners enter the college premises, they encounter a very welcoming, caring and calm environment,’ inspectors said in a report about Chadsgrove Specialist College

News, Ofsted

DfE and quangos shun NUS – but will FE notice?

The union’s engagement on FE issues is already minimal

News