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19 April 2026

Tag: colleges

Rachel Bown, FE lecturer of the year

Rachel Bown was crowned the FE lecturer of the year at the 2023 Pearson National Teaching awards for the inspirational PE teaching she does at her small specialist college, Fairfield Farm in Wiltshire. But Bown is inspiring not just for her teaching.  After a brain tumour left her blind in one eye and at one […]

FE Student support champion Polly Harrow

Polly Harrow sees her new role as the country’s first FE student support champion as being the “most perfect challenge”. After spending 25 years in FE, including ten as chair of the National Association for Managers of Student Services (NAMSS), few others understand the difficulties of providing support to college students amid the spiralling mental […]

The governor with integrity and inclusivity at the heart of his job

Demands on unpaid college chairs are growing. Waltham Forest College chair Paul Butler tells Jessica Hill about the importance of finding college governors who are rooted in their communities. College governors are told to ask challenging questions. But preparing interview questions to ask a highly experienced college governor is a tough ask. And Paul Butler […]