One step forward and how many backwards?
The number of my colleagues looking to change career, retire early or who feel simply burnt out is sadly increasing. I cannot say I am…
Dr Paul Phillips CBE
Time to review!
As we locked the college up at around 2pm on Christmas Eve we started to receive further information on the email about Area Review requirements…
Innovation despite funding cuts
To use the word innovation at a time when funding cuts, area review and general disarray surrounds us seems almost a contradiction. Nevertheless at my…
Sea change for Weston
The five-week phenomenon that was Banksy’s Dismaland generated great excitement in Weston-super-Mare, not least among learners in the media and creative departments at Weston College.…
Through the looking glass, a time of calm relative to the new agenda we face.
Last September I thought the FE environment was becoming somewhat complicated whereas actually it was a time of calm relative to the new agenda we…
Through the looking glass
Last September I thought the FE environment was becoming somewhat complicated whereas actually it was a time of calm relative to the new agenda we…
Brave decisions and opaque detail
Well, the budget announcement came out and there was some news for us, though really “not a lot.” I suppose what we heard about, in…
Time to grasp the nettle
In the days of the Learning and Skills Council we viewed the changes introduced at that time as quite draconian and wondered how we would…
Rollercoaster ahead – canny management required
Well here we go, this time without a Coalition Government, and what will this new Conservative era bring to the world of education? It is…
Sweet and sour
This has definitely been one of the strangest weeks of my life, during which we received funding details for the future coupled with a national…