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FE Commissioner Steps in to Investigate Land Sales Between West Kent and Hadlow College > Group Principal Steps Down WE RECOGNISE OFSTED SLAMS COLLEGES SEEK THAT WE CAN MYSTERIOUS FUNDING LOVE IMPROVE PROVIDER FROM NO 11 Page 12 Page 3 Page 10 FEWEEK.CO.UK FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019 @FEWEEK EDITION 271 Accounting irregularities at Hadlow group COLLEGES > FE Commissioner steps in to investigate land sales between West Kent and Hadlow College > Group principal steps down due to ill health just days after deputy principal resignation > Cash crisis as ESFA seeks to claw back cash following funding investigation > Future of colleges in doubt Image credit: Manu Palomeque without quick property sales or government bailout L-R: Mark Lumsdon-Taylor, deputy group Principal with Paul Hannan, group principal in a photoshoot for Kent Life last year Exclusive FRASER WHIELDON [email protected] See pages 8 & 9 CONFERENCE PARTNER HEADLINE PARTNER CONFERENCE SPONSORS ANNUAL APPRENTICESHIP CONFERENCE AND EXHIBITION 2019 27-28 MARCH 2019, BIRMINGHAM KIRSTY WARK Host of AAC 2019 SEE PAGE 15 FOR MORE INFO 2 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2019 @FEWEEK EDITION 271 FEWEEK.CO.UK EDITION 271 MEET THE TEAM FEWeek.co.uk Nick Linford Shane Mann EDITOR MANAGING DIRECTOR @NICKLINFORD @SHANERMANN [email protected] [email protected] Please inform the FE Week editor of any errors or issues of concern regarding this publication. 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This also applies to part-time [email protected] Under its contract with Open Awards, which have nominated the institute to Under the old policy, students with students who have a grade three or the IfATE, like Ofqual, doesn’t charge provide EQA”. a GCSE graded two or below in maths grade D GCSE or equivalent. end-point assessment organisations Mark Dawe, chief executive of or English had to resit until they got Full-time students with a grade Exclusive (EPAOs) for the quality assurance service. the Association of Employment and between a grade four and a nine. three must still study an eligible But this will change when its new Learning Providers, has labelled Now, full-time students with a GCSE qualification to meet the grade two or below in the subjects condition of funding. The Institute for Apprenticeships and contract comes into play. charging for EQA as the “biggest Technical Education (IfATE) has been Tender documents for the institute’s mistake yet”. forced into hastily finding “interim” new contract state that “legislation The ESFA sets a funding band for arrangements for its apprenticeship allows the institute to charge EPAOs a each apprenticeship standard, which is Studio school closures on the horizon external quality assurance service for fee per apprentice that undertakes an usually the value given to providers to A studio school has confirmed on Wednesday it had “reached a April. end-point assessment and it is these fees deliver the training. it will close this week and point where it is only right and Open Awards has held the contract that will pay for the EQA service”. Up to 20 per cent of the total funding another announced it is “strongly proper to stop and look at what the to monitor end-point assessment They add: “The institute’s budget is is available to fund the end-point considering” shutting. future holds” after running up a organisations on the institute’s behalf limited and we are seeking to work with assessment. The EQA cost is paid by The Bath Studio School will £600,000 deficit due to low student since August 2017, but this deal comes to a supplier who will deliver a high-quality the end-point assessment organisation not admit any new students this numbers. an end in March. service at a price that offers strong value and is factored into the EPA price. September and will close for good More than half of studio schools A procurement was launched at the for money.” There are currently 18 approved in August 2020 after operating at have shut or announced they are end of January for a new organisation to The bidding organisation is asked to external quality assurance bodies 47 per cent or less capacity since looking to shut since the scheme take on the job, which would run until “confirm what price they would charge that monitor end-point assessment opening in 2014. was introduced in 2010. March 2021. per end-point assessment”, and would organisations, to ensure the process is Studio@Dayes in Liverpool said No studio schools opened in 2018. However, tender documents, receive a minimum payment of £20,000 “fair, consistent and robust”. seen by FE Week, show that "service a month for the duration of the contract. FE Week revealed the “ridiculous commencement” will not be until May The winning bidder can therefore variability” in approved external Arts and media ITP challenging Ofsted 2019. expect to earn at least half a million quality assurance charges last week, FE Week asked the institute what pounds over the two-year contract which were criticised by sector leaders Arts and media provider Sheffield In November, chief inspector this meant for the month of April, and a period. for ranging from a free service to £179 Independent Film and Television Amanda Spielman spoke out (Shift) has said it will appeal after about the “mismatch” between the spokesperson confirmed that external A spokesperson for the institute per apprentice. receiving a grade four from Ofsted. numbers of students taking arts quality assurance “will continue during said EQA is to be delivered on a “cost- Tom Bewick, chief executive of The education watchdog said and media courses and their “future April”. recovery basis and not for profit” and the Federation of Awarding Bodies, provision at Shift had declined since employment in the industry”. However, it has had to come up with this has “been made clear to potential representing many of the 199 currently its last inspection, when it was rated Bridget Kelly, chief executive of “interim arrangements” for the month, bidders”. approved EPAOs, said: “These practices grade two, and criticised it for not Shift, said: “We don’t agree with which haven’t been finalised yet. The institute’s tender documents run the risk of bringing the entire moving enough students, who study the judgment and we are going to This is likely to cause some concern, said it anticipates that up to “67,000 reforms into disrepute.” creative subjects, on to further study challenge it through the complaints considering that the institute is the (approx.
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