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further education governance guide

  • Education, training and skills
  • Further and higher education, skills and vocational training

Teaching, leadership and governance in further education

Review of the further education (FE) sector, focusing on FE colleges.

Applies to England

further education governance guide

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78105-827-5, DFE-AP 2016/65

PDF , 670 KB , 115 pages

Professor David Greatbatch and Sue Tate’s recommendations for teaching, leadership and governance in FE colleges.

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    an exempt charity. Your corporation is established under the FHEA 1992 for the charitable purpose of advancing education. An FE or sixth-form college is an activity through which your corporation ...

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  5. Statutory Framework In FE

    a statutory corporation established under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ( FHEA 1992) an exempt charity. The corporation is established under the FHEA 1992, sections 18 & 19, for the charitable purpose of advancing education. A FE or sixth-form college is an activity through which the corporation achieves its charitable purpose.

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    1992 (FHEA 1992) an exempt charity. Your corporation is established under the FHEA 1992 for the charitable purpose of advancing education. An FE or sixth-form college is an activity through which your corporation achieves its charitable purpose. Your college(s) is not a legal entity in itself.

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  8. PDF Review of Further Education and Sixth Form College Governance

    1. Better co-ordination between government departments and key stakeholders to encourage the sector to identify outstanding FE and Sixth Form College governors for potential reward through the Honours system. Awards should not be limited to Chairs and should also consider, for example, Chairs of sub-committees.

  9. Governance practice in English Further Education colleges:

    Parnham JD (1998) Questioning governance in English further education: A comparative study of the English and American systems. Research in Post-Compulsory Education 3(3): 296-310. Crossref

  10. An analysis of the codes of college governance in England, Northern

    The further education college sectors in each of the four jurisdictions in the UK have a code of governance that is intended to guide governing practice in the institutions in those countries. The paper reviews the governing codes and the governance arrangements of colleges in the four UK nations.

  11. PDF Further Education Code of Good Governance

    This code covers post-16 and adult education provision. It aims to support a rigorous approach to governance in the English FE sector. It is for boards to consider as part of their governance improvement plans to ensure that governance is working as effectively as possible. The code has been developed in consultation with the FE sector and

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  17. Contextualising further education governance in Northern Ireland

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    appropriate governance arrangements and practices for their organisation. 3. Legally, FE colleges are incorporated through the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 and recognised as part of the FE sector. The powers of FE Corporations are set out in the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. 4. The principal powers are

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  21. Research & Publications

    Summary of Governance Reports Commissioned by the Education. and Training Foundation in 2014/15. London: Education and Training Foundation. Hill, R (2014) Trends in Governance in Further Education Local Government Studies Masunga, R. (2013). Governance practice in English further education colleges: the.

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  23. Contextualising further education governance in Northern Ireland

    This paper examines how governance in the further education (FE) sector in Northern Ireland (NI) is influenced by national and devolved policy frame- works by exploring the unique ways in which boards are positioned within these contexts. Despite the distinctive ways in which FE policy has devel- oped alongside the other devolved nations, very ...