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Post-16 Educator Iss. 117 Oct.-Dec. 2024 Further & Higher Education 2024: which side Are we on? Website: post16Educator.org.uk with Gus John, Stephen Lambert, Tom White, Lynn Senior, Kevin Orr, Eddie Playfair, Michael Hepworth, Jane Lethbridge, Colin Waugh

NEW on Wonkhe: This week’s card from Hugh Jones’ postbag shows just how straightforward our ancient universities can be wonkhe.com/blogs/higher-e…

Gravelly Hill Interchange, 'Spaghetti Junction', Birmingham; designed by Sir Owen Williams and Partners, built 1968-72 - Photo: Simon Phipps

New on Substack, my post on slum clearance and municipal housing in Birmingham before the First World War: open.substack.com/pub/municipald…

Hartlepool College is 175 years old & we have loads of artefacts from down the years. Love this from 2009 focusing on our superb fabrication & welding curriculum & facilities which are still going strong today 😍 One for Paul Smith

Slightly away from FE but for fans of Brutalist Architecture and Noise...My track inspired by Madin's Birmingham Central Library (using a field recording of its demolition) features on this digital compilation from Industrial Coast industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/track/birmingh…

Some haven't liked the term 'decimation' used by Sam Freedman- as he says it is accurate on 16-18 funding. But overall college income drop since 2010 is 3 times worse (30%) & for adults it is 6 times worse (60%). Not sure of the words for that - unbelievable? Criminal? #LoveOurColleges

What other sector of Education has got you covered throughout your life? Courses for unemployed young people/Pre-Retirement Courses-From Keighley Technical College prospectus 1977-78 #FE #HistEd #AdultEd

#MapOnATuesday We recently found this Birmingham city centre map in a City of Birmingham Information Department 1972 Guide to Birmingham. Wonder how many of those buildings still exist in 2024. Reference - LP 83.4 LibraryofBirmingham

Protests were held in London #OnThisDay 2010 in opposition to planned spending cuts to further education and an increase of the cap on tuition fees by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. The protest involved between 30,000 and 50,000 demonstrators.

"Nobody is too old for our classes". Prospectus-Keighley Technical College 1979-80 #FE #UKFE #HistED

Complete #Post16Educator archive now online. post16educator.org.uk FE News FE Week Learning and Skills Research Network #UCU #NEU ARPCE HudCRES Studies in the Education of Adults RaymondWilliamsFndtn RaPAL (Research and Practice in Adult Literacies) NATECLA National Centre #JoyFE💛 Collective Centenary Commission on Adult Education Studies in Adult Education and Learning The Working Class Collective Lessons in Organising

HE graduation-2002- Solihull College #FurtherEducation #FE

A book I always find myself returning to #FE #FurtherEducation

25 years ago! Aged 19 & NEET I enrolled in this degree at my local college. Life changing #FE #FurtherEducation

Pin badge. Bournville Day Continuation College made by Fattorini & Sons, Birmingham #histed #FE #bournville

I'm stopping posting on here for obvious reasons...but I'm on bluesky #FE

David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89 theguardian.com/books/2025/jan…

For those of us of a certain age, this is a superb evocation of the nature and iniquities of the grammar school system. I was a grammar school boy myself but let's never forget the huge social and educational progress represented by comprehensive schooling bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…