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With over 35 years’ management experience in different sectors, my focus is on promoting excellence and best practice in the construction industry. From the marbled…

There is evidence to suggest that most public service transformations fail – but also that successful transformations share a certain set of characteristics. A 2018…

There is a great deal that college leaders can learn from transformations in other sectors and disciplines which may appear unrelated to further education. I have…

The challenge of doing more with less remains a key consideration for higher education leaders and gradually cloud technologies are becoming established as an innovative…

If you interrogate the data and read the Ofsted reports of poorly performing further education colleges, it is possible to identify a set of common…

There is no doubt that any merger, especially with a college that was in difficulty both financially and in terms of quality, is a serious…

Recent college performance. The performance of further education colleges compares poorly with organisations in the wider education, health and social care sectors… At the end…

Over the last two years, mental health has become a key boardroom issue in Britain, but the gap between the perception of how much has…

The next major reform on the further education conveyor belt is the introduction of ‘T levels’ – the latest iteration of government’s full-time programme specification…