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Truro & group’s estate would be restructured”. entire college curriculum in line Cash-strapped Cornwall College Group Penwith also told FE Week that it has “no A spokesperson for the group said it with Local Enterprise Partnership has secured a £30 million government plans for merger”. was unable to comment on its future other campuses. priorities, market need, employer bailout to drive forward its “fresh start” Cornwall College Group had its initial plans any further when asked if it was Its Bristol site is the requirements and skills needs, and have business plan, but questions continue to request for the £30 million bailout preparing to sell off any campuses. furthest away – sitting rigorously tested the quality of each loom about whether campuses will be rejected by the ESFA in May 2018, after Other big college groups in financial nearly 100 miles away from Bicton. course”. sold off. receiving £4.5 million emergency difficulty have downsized in recent In return for receiving the £30 million A “modern and secure IT systems The group, which has eight sites funding in 2016-17 and £3.5 million in times. emergency funding, the college group infrastructure” will also be implemented across the South West, was told it was 2017-18. In April it was announced that has committed to significantly changing and there will be “investment in not financially “viable or resilient” and One of the “main concerns” for the Harrogate College was being offloaded its operating model – a process known exceptional training and learning had “weak solvency” in its post-16 area agency was around the “viability of by the Hull College Group as part of its as “fresh start”. experiences for students and businesses”. review report from 2017, but that it maintaining eight sites”, according to the recovery plan. Former principal Raoul Humphreys A spokesperson for Truro & Penwith should remain a standalone college. FE Commissioner report published three A month later Birmingham resigned back in November. College said: “The aim of Truro & Penwith A follow-up review of further months ago. Metropolitan College announced it An FE commissioner assessment College is to support and complement education in Cornwall was launched last The college was “invited to prepare a was to sell off its Stourbridge College summary of the group, published in July those external interventions which year at the request of Cornwall Council, ‘deep dive’ contribution model, which site, with learners moving to two other 2017, said the new leadership team was enable the creation of a financially viable, which put pressure on the group to would include the ability to look at nearby colleges in September. “not responsible for the loss of financial standalone Cornwall College. work more closely with its rival, Truro & individual courses delivered at each site”, The last member of the Cornwall control” experienced by the college “It is offering support through Penwith College, and that a merger may and had a reworked bid accepted at the College Group to join was Bicton College under the previous principal Amarjit sharing best practice in the areas of be in learners’ best interests. end of March 2019. in March 2015. 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Get in touch to find out more by emailing [email protected] 4 FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2019 @FEWEEK EDITION 284 FEWEEK.CO.UK News IfA to 'optimise' apprenticeship EQA system FRASER WHIELDON reveal that the IfA has been asked to organisations (EPAOs) that run Mark Dawe, who said: “Finally, common [email protected] provide the Department for Education examinations for apprentices. sense is biting. The sooner this process of with an “appraisal of the best method The job is done by a mix of transfer is complete, the better. of delivering EQA through a simpler professional bodies, employers and “It is great to have professional bodies Exclusive system”. quangos such as the IfA and Ofqual – involved across all sectors, but Ofqual “One important part of this is which between them run EQA for over should have overarching responsibility.” The Institute for Apprenticeships retaining the role of professional bodies 200 standards.