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Helen Draycott Advertiser 3 Feb 11
A leading global engineering company has thrown its weight behind a new multi-million pound academy in Walsall which will open later this year.
Siemens has given its backing to the Black Country University Technical College (UTC) by becoming a partner of the project, due to open on the site of Sneyd Community School this September.
Company representatives met with other key partners and stakeholders at an ‘Engineering Our Future’ seminar held at Walsall College this week to share their visions for the new school for 14 to 19-year-olds…
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Duncan Tift BusinessDesk 24 Dec 10
Government approval for a new £9.5m technical college in Walsall has been welcomed by council and academic leaders in the borough.
The new University Technical College (UTC), which is designed to serve the whole of the Black Country, will open on the site of Sneyd Community School in September 2011.
UTCs are a new concept in education. They offer 14 to 19 year olds the opportunity to take technical courses at a specialist school equipped to the highest standards, increasing their chances of a university place or higher end jobs…
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Express & Star 18 Dec 10
Forty new jobs will be created when the UK’s first university technical college opens in Walsall. The teaching and support staff positions will be available at the multi-million pound engineering college, which will replace doomed Sneyd Community School in Bloxwich from next September.
Staff currently working at Sneyd, in Vernon Way, will not automatically be transferred to the UTC but have been invited to apply for the new jobs…
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Helen Draycott Advertiser 17 Sep 10
Walsall College is enjoying one of its best enrolment periods ever, with record numbers signing up for vocational courses.
Prospective students have been turning up in droves to the college in Littleton Street West to book their place on its V6 vocational sixth form, with 3,633 16 to 18-year-olds enrolling on full-time courses.
The figure represents an increase of 27 per cent on last year.
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Kat Keogh B'ham Post 4 Aug 10
Teaching staff at three West Midlands prisons were going on strike today in a row over contracts. Some workers claim they could lose up to £7,000 pay in the dispute over terms and conditions.
About 100 members of the University and College Union (UCU) at HMP Birmingham in Winson Green, and HMP Brinsford and HMP Featherstone in Wolverhampton are taking action against the Manchester College (TMC) in a one-day walkout…
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Harvy Matharu Harvy's Notebook 8 Jul 10
Thousand of pounds, tuition fees, morning lectures and hazy hangovers….all for what? Nothing.
Walking into your dream job is about to get harder. Employees are sifting through hundreds of hopeful applicants by turning their backs on grads with 2:2’s or lower. So if you haven’t got a 2:1 your application will probably end up in the bin. As there are more graduates and less jobs, employers are now in the position to be picky…
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The Plastic Hippo 6 Jul 10
Then I will begin...
Once upon a time in a land far, far away, someone somewhere realised that the condition of school buildings in Britain was a national disgrace. A fairy godmother found a pot of gold and the plan was to make everyone live happily ever after. But the ogres, dragons and trolls have stolen the pot of gold and the lost boys will remain forever lost.
The Education Reform Act of 1988, introduced by Kenneth Baker (remember him?), was a knee-jerk reaction to the realisation that schools were physically falling apart after decades of neglect. The then government introduced the key stages, the national curriculum, league tables and grant maintained schools and the now forgotten Local Management of Schools initiative…
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Express & Star 8 Apr 10
Up to 40 children will be forced to find new colleges half way through their A-level studies after it emerged Sneyd School’s sixth form is to shut this year. National education chiefs at the Learning and Skills Council say the low numbers using the sixth form at the Vernon Way site make it “unviable” and have said they will axe its funding in July.
Schools chiefs today said efforts would be made to ensure alternative places are found for the 40 students currently in their first year of the sixth form.
And it also emerged today that a total of only 60 children would still be on the roll at the school which has space for almost 1,400 for its final academic year before closure in August 2012…
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Walsall Advertiser 8 Apr 10
Plans to replace the soon-to-be closed Sneyd School with a University Technical College (UTC) have moved a step closer to materialising after they received government support.
The proposed UTC would operate as part of a national network offering 14 to 19-year-olds a range of vocational courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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B'ham Mail 29 Mar 10
Six top-performing colleges in the West Midlands, including Walsall College, could take over the running of under-performing institutions in the area under a Government scheme to create “chains” of state schools, Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has said…