Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2020 to 2021
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FE Commissioner Annual report
  • Dec 13, 2021
New FE Commissioner interview: ‘I want to change perception from one of fear to one of support’
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FE Commissioner Shelagh Legrave
  • Nov 12, 2021
Meet Shelagh Legrave, the next FE commissioner
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FE Commissioner Shelagh Legrave
  • Aug 31, 2021
The next FE commissioner: What I know about leadership
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FE Commissioner Shelagh Legrave
  • Apr 12, 2021
New Further Education Commissioner announced
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Shelagh Legrave FE Commissioner
  • Apr 1, 2021
The new FE commissioner: Who is Shelagh Legrave?
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Shelagh Legrave FE Commissioner
  • Apr 1, 2021
FE commissioner: Principal Shelagh Legrave appointed
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Shelagh Legrave FE Commissioner
  • Apr 1, 2021
Well-known college CEO named as new FE Commissioner
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FE Commissioner Shelagh Legrave
  • Apr 1, 2021
Interim FE Commissioner revealed
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FE Commissioner Frances Wadsworth
  • Mar 31, 2021
Farewell to the commissioner – but what comes next?
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FE Commissioner Richard Atkins
  • Mar 26, 2021
Atkins exit interview: ‘Do I think we’ve got most of it right? Yes – I do’
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Richard Atkins FE Commissioner College intervention
  • Mar 26, 2021
FE commissioner calls for protected brand for colleges
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FE Commissioner Colleges
  • Feb 24, 2021
FE commissioner's annual report: what you need to know
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FE Commissioner Annual report
  • Nov 30, 2020
FE Commissioner 2019/20 annual report: 6 things we learned
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FE Commissioner Annual report
  • Nov 30, 2020
'Berated' FE leaders want private commissioner reports
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FE Commissioner Reports College intervention
  • Oct 13, 2020
FE commissioner to stay in job 'up to 12 more months'
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FE Commissioner Richard Atkins
  • Sep 8, 2020
Coronavirus: 40 colleges had calls from commissioner
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FE Commissioner Online learning Coronavirus College closures
  • Jul 8, 2020
FE commissioner: 30 to 40 colleges 'at risk'
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FE Commissioner College finances Insolvency
  • Jul 8, 2020
The scale of FE commissioner intervention revealed
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Intervention College performance FE Commissioner
  • Jul 7, 2020
College intervention regime resumes as AoC calls for post-Covid FE Commissioner ‘rethink’
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FE Commissioner Coronavirus Intervention College performance
  • Jul 7, 2020
FE commissioner to review 'unviable' college site
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FE Commissioner College closures
  • Jun 25, 2020
Covid-19: Over 40 colleges supported by FE commissioner
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Coronavirus FE Commissioner College support College finances
  • May 29, 2020
Gowland comes out of retirement to be temp boss at London college
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FE Commissioner
  • Mar 21, 2020
FE Commissioner reveals how £80m rebuild and ‘significant failures’ put college’s future at risk
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FE Commissioner College funding Supervised status College finances
  • Mar 18, 2020
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention
  • Mar 18, 2020
Coronavirus: FE commissioner pauses college work
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Coronavirus Colleges FE Commissioner
  • Mar 18, 2020
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention
  • Feb 24, 2020
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention
  • Feb 7, 2020
Richard Atkins unpacks the FE Commissioners Annual report
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FE Commissioner
  • Feb 5, 2020
FE commissioner annual report: Colleges entering formal intervention rises by two-thirds
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FE Commissioner Colleges Performance
  • Feb 5, 2020
FE Commissioner’s leadership team to nearly double
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FE Commissioner Leaders
  • Jan 23, 2020
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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Intervention FE Commissioner Colleges
  • Oct 15, 2019
Meet the FE Commissioner’s new cost-cutting boss
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FE Commissioner Lord Agnew
  • Sep 12, 2019
Deputy FE commissioner appointed as DfE struggle to find advisers
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FE Commissioner Recruitment
  • Aug 27, 2019
FE Commissioner called in as principal on leave for ‘personal reasons’
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FE Commissioner Colleges Mismanagement
  • Jul 30, 2019
FE Commissioner recommends 3-way split for Hadlow College Group
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FE Commissioner Mergers
  • Jul 11, 2019
Chair regrets merger and college is at a ‘high risk of insolvency’
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Mergers ESFA FE Commissioner College insolvency Funding PFI Finances
  • Jul 11, 2019
‘We were genuinely shocked by what we found’
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FE Commissioner Finances Funding Mismanagement College insolvency
  • May 24, 2019
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention
  • May 23, 2019
Hadlow leaders 'put sustainability of two colleges at risk'
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College insolvency FE Commissioner Mismanagement
  • May 23, 2019
Hadlow Group colleges scandal: The FE Commissioner’s 6 key findings
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College insolvency Mismanagement FE Commissioner
  • May 23, 2019
Former college staff get a chance to challenge FE Commissioner reports
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Colleges FE Commissioner Reports
  • May 3, 2019
BMet to close Stourbridge College in bid to pay back debt
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Colleges Finances FE Commissioner Closures De-mergers
  • May 3, 2019
FE Commissioner visits and reports
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FE Commissioner
  • Apr 29, 2019
UCU calls on FE Commissioner to consider de-merging London colleges from NCG
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Unions FE Commissioner De-mergers Colleges
  • Apr 26, 2019
Colleges could face local area reviews by FE commissioner
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Colleges Area reviews FE Commissioner
  • Apr 1, 2019
Colleges ticked off for ‘over-optimistic’ forecasts
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Colleges FE Commissioner Finances
  • Mar 22, 2019
‘Urgent actions’ needed at two cash-strapped colleges, FE Commissioner warns
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Colleges Funding Finances FE Commissioner
  • Mar 22, 2019
Tributes paid to former FE Commissioner Sir David Collins
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FE Commissioner
  • Feb 20, 2019
Stop 'humiliation' of college principals, urges union
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FE Commissioner Leaders Intervention
  • Feb 19, 2019
John Ruskin College commended by FE Commissioner's report
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FE Commissioner Colleges Improvement
  • Feb 15, 2019
Hadlow Group chief executive on sick leave following FE Commissioner intervention
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FE Commissioner Leaders Intervention
  • Feb 14, 2019
Hadlow Group senior leader resigns as FE Commissioner steps in
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Colleges Finances Resignations FE Commissioner
  • Feb 11, 2019
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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Colleges Intervention FE Commissioner
  • Feb 7, 2019
FE Commissioner reports published for 3 struggling colleges
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FE Commissioner Colleges Performance Bailouts Administered status
  • Feb 7, 2019
Ofsted must set out its role vs FE commissioner
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FE Commissioner Ofsted inspections Ofsted framework
  • Jan 15, 2019
FE commissioner: check with me before appointing a principal
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FE Commissioner Colleges Leaders Principals
  • Nov 30, 2018
Richard Atkins stays as FE commissioner until 2020
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Richard Atkins FE Commissioner
  • Nov 29, 2018
Richard Atkins re-appointed FE commissioner for further 2 years
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FE Commissioner Richard Atkins Leaders
  • Nov 29, 2018
FE Commissioner quizzed over ‘serial offenders’
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FE Commissioner AoC
  • Nov 24, 2018
Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2017 to 2018
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FE Commissioner
  • Nov 20, 2018
FE commissioner annual report: number of colleges put into intervention drops by more than half
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FE Commissioner Colleges Ofsted inspections Improvement Finances
  • Nov 20, 2018
FErret: Keep an eye on Ofsted for the hidden drama at AoC
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AoC FE Commissioner Ofsted ESFA College funding
  • Nov 19, 2018
Five colleges slapped with financial warnings
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ESFA Financial FE Commissioner Intervention
  • Nov 15, 2018
Under-fire college principal resigns
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UCU FE Commissioner
  • Nov 13, 2018
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention Colleges
  • Nov 2, 2018
Principal who jumped ship as financial failure exposed is slammed by FE Commissioner
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FE Commissioner Leaders Finances
  • Nov 2, 2018
'Serious corporate failure' at West Nottinghamshire College
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FE Commissioner Ofsted ratings Intervention Administered status
  • Nov 2, 2018
FE commissioner called for ‘urgent review’ to hold West Notts College leadership to account
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Colleges Leaders FE Commissioner Finances
  • Nov 2, 2018
London college slammed for 'poor' leadership
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Intervention Ofsted ratings Administered status FE Commissioner
  • Nov 2, 2018
'Policy, not colleges, are the real problem in FE'
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Colleges Policy Richard Atkins FE Commissioner
  • Oct 26, 2018
Time to fight for the sustainability of our sector #LoveOurColleges
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Funding FE Commissioner Apprenticeships Scheme
  • Oct 16, 2018
Cash-strapped merged college handed ESFA warning over ‘inadequate’ finances
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ESFA Finances FE Commissioner
  • Oct 15, 2018
FE Commissioner report reveals ‘cash crisis’ and falling achievement at Northumberland College
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FE Commissioner
  • Oct 11, 2018
Entrepreneurial failures land college in 'crisis'
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Colleges FE Commissioner
  • Oct 11, 2018
The FE commissioner is wrong: We should keep PROCAT open
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FE Commissioner IoT
  • Jun 26, 2018
FE commissioner reflects on six months of change
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FE Commissioner
  • Jun 25, 2018
FE commissioner recruiting new national leaders of governance
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FE Commissioner Leaders Governance
  • Jun 15, 2018
Merger partner found for FE college incorporated just four years ago
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Colleges FE Commissioner
  • Jun 13, 2018
Commissioner credits improvements at college Ofsted branded ‘unsafe’
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Ofsted FE Commissioner
  • May 25, 2018
FE college incorporated just four years ago told to merge
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FE Commissioner
  • May 25, 2018
Colleges asking for help before they run into trouble, says deputy FE commissioner
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Colleges FE Commissioner Management DfE ESFA Finances Funding
  • Apr 17, 2018
Barnfield College placed in administered status following ‘serious decline’ in financial health
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Colleges Management Finances FE Commissioner Intervention Funding Ofsted
  • Apr 11, 2018
College placed in 'administered status' owing to poor finances
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Colleges Finances Area reviews Funding Intervention FE Commissioner
  • Apr 11, 2018
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention Apprenticeships Skills
  • Apr 11, 2018
Minister sets out success measures for FE Commissioner
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FE Commissioner Colleges Intervention Richard Atkins
  • Apr 5, 2018
Minister's bid to provide 'transparency' about role of FE commissioner
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FE Commissioner Skills DfE Training Richard Atkins
  • Apr 5, 2018
Further Education Commissioner objective setting letter
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FE Commissioner Training Skills
  • Apr 5, 2018
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention Colleges Apprenticeships Skills
  • Mar 22, 2018
Cadbury Sixth Form College 'at immediate risk'
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Sixth forms Colleges Funding Governance Ofsted FE Commissioner Intervention
  • Mar 22, 2018
Second financial notice for troubled Bradford College
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Colleges Finances FE Commissioner ESFA
  • Mar 15, 2018
Sixth-form college no longer of concern
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Sixth forms Colleges Ofsted FE Commissioner
  • Mar 7, 2018
Hull College Group to shed over 200 staff
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Colleges Staff Redundancies Finances FE Commissioner
  • Mar 6, 2018
Commissioner report shows governors’ surprise at college’s dire finances
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FE Commissioner Colleges Finances Funding
  • Mar 1, 2018
FE Commissioner: “Structural change” could follow £1.4m emergency cash injection
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FE Commissioner Colleges Funding Finances
  • Mar 1, 2018
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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DfE ESFA FE Commissioner Intervention
  • Mar 1, 2018
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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FE Commissioner Intervention DfE
  • Feb 22, 2018
FE commissioner forces merger at Guildford College
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FE Commissioner Mergers Colleges
  • Feb 22, 2018
FE Commissioner tells Guildford College to merge by the end of this year
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FE Commissioner Colleges Mergers Intervention Standards
  • Feb 22, 2018
FE commissioner's warning over adult education devolution plans
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FE Commissioner Adult education Devolution Funding
  • Feb 6, 2018
Further Education Commissioner: annual report 2016 to 2017
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DfE FE Commissioner Skills Training
  • Jan 31, 2018
FE Commissioner’s annual report encourages colleges to use £700m bailout fund while they can
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FE Commissioner Funding Colleges Finances
  • Jan 31, 2018
Atkins: FE commissioner's role 'distinctly different'
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FE Commissioner Funding Colleges Improvement
  • Jan 23, 2018
Further Education Commissioner Richard Atkins questioned on challenges facing colleges
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Accountability FE Commissioner Education Committee
  • Jan 22, 2018
Atkins’ aides: Principals appointed to advise DfE
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Skills FE Commissioner Policy DfE
  • Jan 12, 2018
Four more deputy FE commissioners
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FE Commissioner Deputy Colleges
  • Jan 9, 2018
Battle to save college campus near Grenfell Tower gets FE commissioner support
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Colleges FE Commissioner Campus Mergers
  • Dec 8, 2017
Tough new intervention trigger for FE Commissioner
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FE Commissioner Intervention Colleges Assessment Ofsted ratings Finances ESFA Performance
  • Nov 28, 2017
Ex LeSoCo principal steps in at troubled Totton College
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FE Week FE Skills Colleges Ofsted FE Commissioner
  • Oct 3, 2017
The FE commissioner’s new guiding role: hatchet man or helping hand?
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TES FE Commissioner Ofsted Skills Vocational
  • Sep 1, 2017
FE Commissioner intervention reports: June 2014 to May 2016
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DfE FE Commissioner Intervention Colleges Skills
  • Aug 17, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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DfE SFA FE Commissioner Apprenticeships Skills Colleges Intervention
  • Jun 23, 2017
Commissioner concerned over ‘strain’ on leaders running two colleges
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FE Week Colleges FE Commissioner Leaders Ofsted ratings
  • May 2, 2017
Large London college leaps two grades from inadequate
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FE Week Colleges Ofsted ratings FE Commissioner Apprenticeships
  • May 2, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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SFA DfE GOV.UK FE Commissioner FE Apprenticeships Colleges Ofsted ratings Assessment
  • Mar 24, 2017
Finance director blamed in new FE commissioner report
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FE Week FE Commissioner Report
  • Mar 19, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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SFA DfE GOV.UK FE Colleges FE Commissioner Apprenticeships Intervention
  • Mar 17, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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SFA DfE FE Colleges FE Commissioner Apprenticeships Ofsted ratings
  • Mar 16, 2017
Manchester merger scrapped by FE Commissioner
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FE Week FE Colleges FE Commissioner Merger
  • Feb 27, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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SFA DfE GOV.UK FE Commissioner FE Colleges Apprenticeships Skills
  • Feb 24, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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SFA DfE GOV.UK FE Commissioner FE Colleges Apprenticeships Ofsted rating Funding
  • Feb 23, 2017
Hull College Group silent on future of under fire chief executive
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FE Week FE Colleges Leaders SFA Finances FE Commissioner
  • Feb 14, 2017
FE commissioner intervenes at Hull College over finance worries
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TES FE Colleges Apprenticeships FE Commissioner SFA Funding Finances
  • Feb 10, 2017
FE Commissioner intervention report exposes financial turmoil at Hull College Group
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FE Week FE Colleges FE Commissioner Finances SFA DfE
  • Feb 10, 2017
Further Education Commissioner intervention reports
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DfE SFA FE Colleges FE Commissioner Apprenticeships Ofsted rating
  • Feb 10, 2017
DfE silent on FE commissioner intervention reports
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FE Week FE Colleges DfE FE Commissioner
  • Feb 4, 2017
Sir David Collins earned £0.5m in three years as FE commissioner
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FE Week FE Commissioner Colleges FE
  • Dec 10, 2016
Policy Eye - Highlights of week ending Friday 25 November 2016
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Pearson Policy FE HE Colleges Universities Autumn statement Grammar Apprenticeships Apprenticeship levy FE Commissioner TEF MATs Primary Secondary
  • Nov 28, 2016
FE commissioner’s plea to rescue Hereward College
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FE Week FE Colleges FE Commissioner Ofsted
  • Nov 25, 2016
FE commissioner: 'Colleges will have to specialise to survive'
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TES FE FE Commissioner Area reviews Leaders AoC
  • Nov 25, 2016
FE Commissioner Richard Atkins discusses Area Reviews, the lessons learned and challenges for 2017
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FE News FE Commissioner Area reviews FE Colleges
  • Nov 22, 2016
FE Week's annual charity auction raises a whopping £14,000
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FE Week FE Colleges AoC FE Commissioner
  • Nov 19, 2016
Editor Asks: David Hughes in conversation (part 2)
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FE Week FE Colleges AoC FE Commissioner Area reviews LSC SFA Funding
  • Nov 19, 2016
Richard Atkins: The FE sector ‘is doing pretty well’
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FE Week FE Colleges FE Commissioner DfE
  • Nov 18, 2016
Exeter College is the best college in the country, according to FE Week’s new league table
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FE Week FE Colleges League tables FE Commissioner
  • Nov 17, 2016
Insufficient progress for inadequate college
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FE FE Week Colleges Ofsted FE Commissioner
  • Oct 28, 2016
Area reviews 'going remarkably well', insists FE commissioner
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FE FE Commissioner TES Area reviews
  • Oct 26, 2016
Staff vote of no confidence at City of Liverpool College
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UCU Colleges Leadership Apprenticeships FE Commissioner TES
  • Oct 25, 2016
FE commissioner to face questions on area reviews
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FE FE Commissioner Post-16 Training DfE FE Week
  • Oct 21, 2016
City of Liverpool College placed in administered status by ‘extremely concerned’ minister
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FE Colleges Apprenticeships FE Commissioner FE Week
  • Oct 21, 2016