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Ofsted appears to back colleges in Progress 8 battle

The credibility of a major new government progress measure is at stake after a college labelled as one of the worst in the country for teaching 14- to 16-year-olds has been rated ‘outstanding’ for its provision by Ofsted. The watchdog couldn’t praise Leeds City College highly enough for its “direct entry” provision in a report […]

What the FE sector should be saying about Progress 8

Colleges and providers are in agreement: school league tables are a terrible way to measure FE learners’ progress. Sam Parrett proposes a solution I recently wrote an article arguing that colleges should not be judged by the government’s new-style Progress 8 league tables. The response I received from colleagues, local authorities and wider stakeholders was […]

Don’t judge colleges on Progress 8!

The government’s wrong-headed performance measures do not work for 14-to-16 provision, and cannot give vocational learning the credit it deserves, writes Sam Parrett Over two years ago, I wrote to what was then the EFA to express my concerns around the new Progress 8 performance measures and how they would be applied to our cohort […]