Fareham College were recently awarded an Association of College’s Beacon Award for their work with the Southern Health at The Leg Care Community Clinic. The Leg Care Clinic provides a professional learning environment for those studying Health and Social Care [...]

8 South East Colleges, AOSEC and Sport England are currently running a pilot project called ‘The Sports Ambassadors Gold Challenge’. The project will test a number of models for electing student Sports Council members within colleges in order to stimulate [...]

This week sees the launch of the UK’s biggest national skills and careers event – The Skills Show.   The Skills Show will be between 15th and 17th November, 2012 and will be held at the NEC Birmingham.   The [...]

Do you work with gifted and talented learners in a Further Education or a Sixth form setting? Would you be interested in meeting with other like minded individuals to discuss gifted and talented provision in the SE and how it [...]

Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, John Hayes, today launched an independent review to investigate ways to improve the professional status of the further education and skills workforce. He confirmed that the review will be chaired by Lord [...]

A new AoC study shows that the average college provides training for more than 1000 unemployed people a year. As unemployment climbs to 2.6 million, including more than one million young people, colleges are working harder than ever to give [...]

It was announced yesterday that there will be a £50 million investment into sports provision in Further Education Colleges and Universities. Jeremy Hunt, Secretary for State for Department for Culture, Olympics Media and Sport, outlined plans for a £1 billion [...]

Baroness Sharp of Guildford will be speaking at the AOSEC Principal, Clerk, Chairs and Governors event on Tuesday 31st January at Berkshire College of Agriculture. Baroness Sharp plans to discuss her final report ‘A Dynamic Nucleus-Colleges at the heart of [...]

Dr Anne Murdoch, Principal of Newbury College and AOSEC Board Member, is made OBE for services to Further Education in the New Year’s Honours List 2012. All of us at AOSEC would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Dr [...]

We are pleased to announce the results for the first AOSEC competition for learners with learning difficulties and / or disabilities, being sponsored by ASDAN, to design a poster around the theme of “Keeping Safe”. Thank you to all the [...]