Home
- Need help watching a live broadcast?
- Click here to see what we do for some of our clients
- Our packages include conferences, debates, phone-ins, etc
- Follow us on Twitter for all the latest information
- Visit our page on Facebook for more stories and our newsletter archive
- Exclusive: photographs reveal first glimpse of uncontacted Amazon community
- Ministers resist calls to block Musk donations to Farage’s Reform UK
- Oleksandr Usyk wins heavyweight rematch to silence Tyson Fury in Riyadh
- Princess Beatrice to spend Christmas at Sandringham after Italy trip shelved
- Magdeburg mourns Christmas market dead
- Sue Gray among 30 newly appointed Labour peers
- 'Worst place I've lived': Vulnerable left in unsafe homes
- Waspi women refused payouts - but what other compensation bills are looming?
- Trump campaign adviser calls incoming UK ambassador to US a 'moron'
- Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approvals to end
Search
Local Government Intelligence
FE Mergers and Partnerships
13 Jun 2011
Sharing and outsourcing; building beneficial collaborations. Held at Eversheds LLP HQ, London EC2
This conference provided experience and insight for principals, finance directors, facilities and ICT managers, deans and directors facing the challenge of change.
Programme
10:00
Steve McCormack, Education Journalist
Welcome and introduction by conference chair
Biography: Steve McCormack
10:10
Glynne Stanfield, Partner, Eversheds LLPSurname
The legal aspects of mergers and partnerships in the FE sector
Biography: Glynne Stanfield
10:30
Martin Sim, Principal and Chief Executive, Salford City College
Drivers and critical success factors when considering mergers and partnerships
Biography: Martin Sim
10:50
Bryn Davies, Principal, Ystrad Mynach College; Chair, NIACE Dysgu Cymru
New style partnerships, collaborations and federations
Biography: Bryn Davies
11:10
Questions and discussion: Session 1
11:20
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
11:50
Dr Ian Tunbridge OBE, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Thames Valley University; Executive, Association for Collaborative Provision of HE in FE (ACP)
HE and FE mergers
Biography: Dr Ian Tunbridge OBE
12:10
Pete Birkett, Principal and Chief Executive, Barnfield Federation
Efficiency savings and shared services
Biography: Peter Birkett
12:30
A case study: Stockport College Building successful co-operative and mutual businesses. An insight into mutual pathfinders
Mervyn Wilson, Principal and Chief Executive, The Co-operative College;
Lynn Merilion, Principal, Stockport College.
Biography: Lynn Merilion
Biography: Mervyn Wilson
12:50
Questions and discussion: Session 2
Detailed session with speakers -
Pete Birkett, Principal and Chief Executive, Barnfield Federation
Efficiency savings and shared services
Mervyn Wilson, Principal and Chief Executive, The Co-operative College
Lynn Merilion, Principal, Stockport College.
13:00
Buffet lunch, networking and exhibition
What's on now:
14:00
David Byrne, Principal and Chief Executive, Southgate College
Involvement and communications with staff and students
Biography: David Byrne
14:15
Panel discussion: Impact on staff, learners and other stakeholders
Dan Taubman, Senior Education Officer, University and College Union (UCU);
Paul Lawrence, Director and Head of Further Education, KPMG LLP (UK);
Janice Shiner, Director, WCL.
Biography: Paul Lawrence
Biography: Janice Shiner
Biography: Dan Taubman
15:00
Refreshments, networking and exhibition
15:30
Key issue seminar A Innovative collaborative models that can deliver efficiencies - projects of the Efficiency and Innovation fund
Janice Shiner, Director, WCL;
Kieron White, Managing Director, WCL.
Biography: Janice Shiner
Biography: Kieron White
15:30
Key issue seminar B: College mergers and IT - some practicalities
Julian Bream, Technical Specialist, JISC Regional Support Centre for London;
Ray Bezuidenhout, Head of ICT Services, College of Enfield, Haringey and North East London.
Biography: Ray Bezuidenhout
Biography: Julian Bream
15:30
Seminar C: Collaborations, alliances and mergers - the research and the reality
Andy Shenstone, Director of FE and HE, Capita Consulting
Biography: Andy Shenstone
Podcast
You need flash to view this content
Comments