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Word on the Street: Does anyone know about redundancies at Nord Anglia?

We have heard a rumour at FE News that the Work Based Learning team at Nord Anglia have been placed onto consultation? An unnamed source has stated that the staff at Leeds and Manchester Nord Anglia Work Based Learning Centres have been made redundant. Our source did not wish to be named, nor do they work for Nord Anglia (hence our initial scepticism).  Have we heard a pack of lies, or is there any truth in the rumour? If this rumour is a pack of lies we apologise to Nord Anglia and to your staff if we have caused any unnecessary panic. The reason for this blog entry is to see what is the real story (or if there is no story at all!).

As Nord Anglia is so huge, we do not know who is the best person to speak to in the company. As we have just heard a rumour, we also want to see if anyone else has heard any news about the Work Based Learning team at Nord Anglia - to see if we were purely told an out and out lie or if  the staff at Nord Anglia are being faced with bad news. As far as we understand, it is only the Work Based Learning team that is either facing or has been made redundant.

Can you help us, we are keen to understand what is happening? Do you work for Nord Anglia, are you a learner working with Nord Anglia or do you know someone in the company? Have you heard anything about Nord Anglia, or have we been told a pack of lies? Who would you recommend as a good point of contact to speak to in Nord Anglia?  Help us reveal the true picture, so as we can update you with the full story in FE News.

Are there any other articles you think we should investigate? Please let us know.

The Word on the Street section is a FE gossip section of the FE Blog. Our gossip sources usually do not want to go on the record, and try to give us tips on what is happening in the FE sector. We do not claim any truth in these articles, at the FE Blog we are sceptical about the truth of an article unless a source is willing to be quoted. The reason for the Word on the Street section is to clarify if there is any truth in the 'rumour' that we have been passed and to attempt to reveal the truth from other interested parties within the FE sector, by asking : Is this truth or total fabrication?

Press Release : Record Numbers of NVQ Assessor job seekers visit FE Careers

It has been yet another record month for specialist Work Based Learning and Further Education job site, www.FEcareers.co.uk. Record numbers of NVQ Assessors, Internal Verifiers, Tutors, Lecturers and Managers have continued to visit FE Careers for their next career move. FE Careers advertise job vacancies across the entire Further Education sector, with vacancies from FE Colleges, Work Based Learning Training Providers, Charities and specialist Recruitment Agencies.

FE Careers and her sister news website FE News have continued to attract new visitors and retain a loyal band of Further Education specialists. FE Careers and FE News are strategic marketing partners with the Association of Learning Providers (ALP), the Institute of

Assessors and Verifiers (IAV) and the Association of External Verifiers (AEV). Through these partnerships FE Careers and FE News are able to offer tailored recruitment advertising and news services to a cross section of the Further Education industry.

FE News has just been signed up to provided news feeds to Learningandskillsweb.org.uk  a DfES and Learning and Skills Council funded website which provides information to the FE industry.

February saw nearly 1 million hits, 320,000 page views, over 53,000 visitor sessions and 16,500 unique visitors. This is a 14% increase on the previous record month in January.

The CEO of FE Careers and FE News is especially pleased with the results. We snatched a few moments with Gavin who explained “We are delighted with our results in February. We had a further healthy increase in job seekers and news readers, but we also had an increase in organisations advertising their job vacancies, and organisations advertising their services. The advertising space on FE News is nearly all booked out until May 2006. We are starting campaigns for a variety of different services to the FE market. We have also had campaigns ranging from the CEL (Centre in Excellence in Leadership), to Ento Direct, Ariam Media, Momentum PR. We are even attracting advertisers from    oxbridge with Lucy

Cavendish College.

We are also really pleased that we have increased the number of FE Colleges advertising on FE Careers. We have had around 25% of our advertisers from FE Colleges; this month has seen this increase to 30% of our job advertisers from FE Colleges. FE Careers main strength is in Work Based Learning job advertising, this is fuelled by our partnership with the ALP, the IAV and the AEV, but our unique position is that we advertise vacancies across the entire FE sector.”

FE Careers have recently launched several satellite job sites to target niche areas within Work Based Learning and Further Education. It sounds like College jobs.co.uk has made an immediate impact for FE Careers, and the record number of NVQ Assessor job seekers could be down to the satellite site assessor jobs.co.uk. At the beginning of the year FE Careers launched Assessor jobs.co.uk to attract NVQ job seekers, Tutor jobs.co.uk for FE, Employability, Key and Basic Skills Tutors, Vocational jobs.co.uk, Training Provider jobs.co.uk and College jobs.co.uk.