Monday, August 01, 2016

Civil and criminal liabilities for college governors - the small print of the proposed insolvency regime

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As summer term drew to a close, the government issued a consultation on an insolvency regime for colleges . Much of the paper is usefully ab...
Thursday, July 02, 2015

Phishing: should you be worried of cyber fraud?

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1.    What exactly is ‘phishing’? The text book definition is: “the illegal attempt to acquire sensitive information such as username...
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Fraud in Schools - what can be done?

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In July news emerged of an investigation into an alleged fraud at a London academy after £4million of school funds disappeared . The cas...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Are schools doomed to be scammed?

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Before the National Fraud Authority ended up on the Coalition’s bonfire of quangos it did a lot of work on raising awareness of fraud. One o...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

EFA asks academy principals and boards to think about fraud

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Today the chief executive of the Education Funding Agency sent a letter  to accounting officers (i.e. principals) at all academies in Englan...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Job losses in colleges – things did not get much worse last year

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The college sector has had a bad few weeks. As a consequence of the funding squeeze, especially the painful reductions in adult skills ...
Wednesday, March 05, 2014

EFA tweaks fraud reporting requirements for academies

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In the New Year academies may not have noticed a subtle change in the Education Funding Agency’s requirements for fraud reporting. The ...

The FE Commissioner reflects on college governance

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After his first six interventions, the Further Education Commissioner has written to colleges with some reflections. The whole letter is wo...