Secret Lecturer - mergers and how to make them work
Almost every week the education press seems to carry yet another story on further education college mergers, whether proposed, completed or abandoned. This year alone has seen five successful mergers,
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- December 2017
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Secret Lecturer - Bigger, shinier, better . . . but where’s my local college?
Funding cuts and Downing Street’s continued hostility to lifting the public sector pay cap mean reduced opportunities in colleges across the board. Retrenchment combined with area reviews is leading
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- October 2017
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Secret Lecturer - Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
The new CPD: research how you teach and then share the resultsIt was looking like a typical end of term. Anxious BTec students ‘jumping’ you to get project work signed off. Departing uni applicants
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- July 2017
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Secret Lecturer - Are students and college staff really ok?
Do you ever wonder why people send you work emails at the strangest times? One Monday morning a colleague found an email waiting for him sent by his line manager late on a Saturday evening. It harked
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- June 2017
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