AoC President discusses EMAs and the risk of increasing NEETs
Chris Morecroft, President of the Association of Colleges (AoC), discusses EMAs and the risk of increasing the number of NEETs. Mr Morecroft discusses the impact of…
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FE means Future Enterprise – SFA CEO Geoff Russell’s AoC speech
SFA CEO Geoff Russell’s AoC 2010 conference speech in full: “Last time I stood here I had to give a rather difficult speech about a…
FE News meets EDI’s Nigel Snook at the AoC 2010 Conference
EDI chief executive Nigel Snook discusses the latest events at the Association of College’s (AoC) 2010 annual conference. Mr Snook chats with FE News about the…
The Browne Review: Colleges and Higher Education changes
The day Lord Browne’s Review took further evidence to support its work in developing recommendations on Higher Education fees and student finance happened to coincide…
Manchester college wins top AoC Beacon Award
Manchester’s Loreto Sixth Form College has picked up one of the sector’s most prestigious education awards. The college has been awarded the Association of Colleges’…
£200m cut to hit recession-weary colleges
Martin Doel, chief executive of the Association of Colleges (AoC), rushed to give evidence to the Business, Innovation and Skills Select Committee today in an…
Earned Autonomy
Another phrase has entered the landscape of the further education system. Coined in Lord Mandelson’s Skills Strategy, earned autonomy proposes the prize of greater flexibility…
David Willetts, Shadow Skills minister
David Willetts MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Universities and Skills, speaks to FE News at AoC’s annual conference 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STfwV2trfT4
Lord Mandelson’s Q&A session at AoC conference
Lord Mandelson’s Q&A session, hosted by Kirsty Wark, at AoC’s annual conference in Birmingham.
Government skills strategy ‘misleading’, warns AoC
Government promises to invest £4.4 billion in Further Education and skills for 2010-11 are misleading because they also include significant savings, warns Martin Doel, chief…