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The Strategic College Improvement Fund (SCIF) is a Department for Education (DfE) funded peer support improvement programme. An applicant college...

The college sector supports the government’s policy aim to increase the number of young people who achieve Level 2 English and maths by 19. Good...

What makes the ideal Level 2 study programme? With all the media interest around Amanda Spielman’s comments about destinations for students on level...

The phrase ‘added value’ is one with the power to strike fear into the heart of even the most committed professional in further education (FE) as we...

Updated to take account of the Political Declaration published on Thursday 22 November 2018 The sound and fury about Brexit in the last few weeks...

Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector (HMCI), Amanda Spielman, has taken the unusual step of writing to the Public Accounts Committee to highlight, amongst...

From the 15-17 at the NEC in Birmingham, WorldSkills UK LIVE will open its doors to the brightest and best apprentices and learners. This is the UK’s...

You’ve done the study, sat the exams and now it’s results day! Catherine Sezen from the Association of Colleges is on hand to help with some top tips...

Earlier this year AoC managed a tourism and hospitality training programme on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism, Brazil. The Ministry sponsored 101...

What’s the saying, ‘the more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it’ ? Certainly my experience at...