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Interim management set for growth in 2012
A recent report by Interim Partners (March 2012) showed that interim manager numbers in the public sector have dropped to a four year low. So how does the FE sector compare? Recent trends within the FE sector would certainly be consistent …
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Loading ...The emerging OFSTED position
The 2011 Annual Report set the scene for an apparent change of tack for Ofsted: no providers were judged ‘outstanding’ for the quality of teaching; the slow progress of satisfactory colleges remained a concern; there was a major problem with too little ‘outstanding’ teaching and learning. OK, so it was a biased sample – colleges which were already outstanding weren’t inspected. Michael Wilshaw has added two things since: out goes ‘satisfactory’ to be…
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Department of Business Innovation and Skills / Learning and Skills Improvement Service Events
BIS and LSIS were developing guidance for colleges around new responsibilities to reach out and contribute to the well-being of their local areas. Their consultation methodology made provision for three regional consultation events.
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AoC Create Addressing issues of social inclusion
The Association of Colleges, through its subsidiary AoC Create, has successfully applied for a European Union funding grant to deliver the ‘New Approaches, New Skills for Social Inclusion’ (NANSSI) project.
The project formed part of the European Union’s Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency’s (EACEA) Lifelong Learning Programme 2007 – 2013, which provides support for European Cooperation in Education and Training (ECET).With its partner in the Netherlands, MBO Raad, the NANSSI project developed a framework for future co-operation that can…
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Sue Parker Better apprenticeships
The John Hayes article is a response to growing concern that a well-aimed approach to better quality vocational education is being undermined by the ‘route one’ approach of some: tick the boxes and get them done with as little cost as possible.
It’s not the first time cost rather than value has seized the initiative – and it is hardly…
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Andrew Thomson