Richard Atkins's guest appearances

Richard Atkins

Tes News

Lolly and Molly talk Money

FE News Podcast: #FutureofEducation News Channel

Reinvented

David Price

Hanna Bier

Jim Murphy

Matthew Syed

Beth Curtis

Mark Wright

Pete Matthew

David Hughes

Pandora Paloma

Amy Barber

Tom Burton

Gillian Keegan

Chris Budd

Vanessa Kettner

Joan Scott

OwlTail

Lisa Conway-Hughes and Molly Benjamin sat down with Richard Atkins from City of London Police, who is part of the Cyber Griffin team to find out what scams are trending, how can we stay protected online, how do we find out if we have ever been hacked and what to do if we have. Richard shares practical hints and tips. Join our Facebook Group here:   https://www.facebook.com/groups/shesonthemoney/ 

Lisa Conway-Hughes and Molly Benjamin sat down with Richard Atkins from City of London Police, who is part of the Cyber Griffin team to find out what scams are trending, how can we stay protected online, how do we find out if we have ever been hacked and what to do if we have. Richard shares practical hints and tips. Join our Facebook Group here:   <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/shesonthemoney/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/shesonthemoney/</a>

How to avoid being scammed online with Richard Atkins!

Richard Atkins unpacks the FE Commissioners Annual reportFE News chat with Richard Atkins, FE Commissioner, to unpack his 2018/19 annual report. We discuss timings on the report, due to the election and purdah the report has come out later than Richard would have hoped, as the original aim was to release the report during the 2019 AoC Annual conference, but this was in the middle of the run up to the general election.Richard then unpacks each of the sections of the report, from Formal Interventions, Diagnostic Assessments, Structural reviews, Quality Improvement, the strategic college improvement fund (SCIF), the number of visits by the FE Commissioner team.We also discuss lessons learned, particularly from Hadlow and how the sector can learn and move forward. Please check out the full and detailed podcast below, we have also transcribed the interview as Richard goes into a lot of detail about the report and we thought this would be really helpful for the sector.

Richard Atkins unpacks the FE Commissioners Annual report FE News chat with Richard Atkins, FE Commissioner, to unpack his 2018/19 annual report. We discuss timings on the report, due to the election and purdah the report has come out later than Richard would have hoped, as the original aim was to release the report during the 2019 AoC Annual conference, but this was in the middle of the run up to the general election. Richard then unpacks each of the sections of the report, from Formal Interventions, Diagnostic Assessments, Structural reviews, Quality Improvement, the strategic college improvement fund (SCIF), the number of visits by the FE Commissioner team. We also discuss lessons learned, particularly from Hadlow and how the sector can learn and move forward. Please check out the full and detailed podcast below, we have also transcribed the interview as Richard goes into a lot of detail about the report and we thought this would be really helpful for the sector.

Unpacking the FE Commissioners Annual report (2019) with Richard Atkins

FE News chat with FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins about his role as the FE Commissioner, particularly how the majority of his role which is supporting and developing the 240 FE Colleges across the sector:Richard explains that although his role is perceived to be all about dramatic college interventions with failing colleges, this is incredibly rare and only happens on a very small handful of minor cases. The majority of Richard's role is developing a consultancy support service for colleges to continually develop and improve the 240 FE Colleges that are incorporated.Richard discusses the National Leaders of FE and National Leaders of Governance and the Diagnostic Assessment service rolled out by his team to over 60 colleges.This is a free service to help high performing colleges as well as colleges that are struggling or looking to improve. Richard explains that it takes time to deliver long term sustainable improvements (it took him 7 years in his previous College Principal role) and he sees this as the norm for it to take time to deliver excellence.Richard goes on to explore how we can continually support and improve the sector, whilst trying to remove the stigma of asking for help and support. He then goes onto give some recommendations from the best strategies and processes he has seen in colleges.After hearing about all of the many support structures in place for FE Colleges, we then go onto ask Richard for his own views to see if a support structure should be in place for Training Providers.Subscribe to the FE News podcast or visit Gavin's Newsroom on FE News.

FE News chat with FE Commissioner, Richard Atkins about his role as the FE Commissioner, particularly how the majority of his role which is supporting and developing the 240 FE Colleges across the sector: Richard explains that although his role is perceived to be all about dramatic college interventions with failing colleges, this is incredibly rare and only happens on a very small handful of minor cases. The majority of Richard's role is developing a consultancy support service for colleges to continually develop and improve the 240 FE Colleges that are incorporated. Richard discusses the National Leaders of FE and National Leaders of Governance and the Diagnostic Assessment service rolled out by his team to over 60 colleges. This is a free service to help high performing colleges as well as colleges that are struggling or looking to improve. Richard explains that it takes time to deliver long term sustainable improvements (it took him 7 years in his previous College Principal role) and he sees this as the norm for it to take time to deliver excellence. Richard goes on to explore how we can continually support and improve the sector, whilst trying to remove the stigma of asking for help and support. He then goes onto give some recommendations from the best strategies and processes he has seen in colleges. After hearing about all of the many support structures in place for FE Colleges, we then go onto ask Richard for his own views to see if a support structure should be in place for Training Providers. Subscribe to the FE News podcast or visit Gavin's Newsroom on FE News.

Diagnostic Assessments and continual improvement with Richard Atkins FE Commissioner