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Issue 112 | December 2020

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OFSTED PUBLISHES ITS 2019/20 ANNUAL REPORT On 1 December Ofsted published its 2019/20 Annual Report. The main findings for FE were as follows: General FE college inspections results fell. Inspection results for the FE college sector during 2019/20 fell for the first time in three years, with the number of GFE colleges judged by Ofsted […]

Issue 111 | November 2020

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DFE PUBLISHES LOCKDOWN GUIDANCE FOR COLLEGES IN ENGLAND On 5 November, the Department for Education (DfE) published guidance for colleges on the second Coronavirus lockdown in England. This was updated on 12 November. The lockdown will be lifted on 2 December, after which date a ‘more rigorous’ three tier system of restrictions will be reintroduced […]

Issue 110 | October 2020

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PRIME MINISTER LAUNCHES ‘LIFETIME SKILLS GUARANTEE’ During his visit to Exeter College, Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a keynote speech in which he announced a number of measures designed to help people to obtain the skills needed to ‘…retain jobs, retrain where jobs have been lost and to help the economy to recover more quickly […]

Issue 109 | September 2020

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From all of us at Click, we hope that you have managed to get a break over the summer and that as you go forward into the new term the many daunting challenges you will no doubt be facing will not be too stressful. This edition of the newsletter, which is the first of the […]

Issue 108 | August 2020

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THE SUMMER 2020 EXAMS: AN OUTLINE OF WHAT HAPPENED WITH SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WHAT WAS THE INITIAL PROPOSAL FOR CALCULATED GRADES? Because of the Coronavirus outbreak, on 18 March the UK government announced that all 2020 summer examinations were cancelled (but, for the avoidance of any confusion, not in the ‘woke’ sense). On 3 […]

Issue 107 | July 2020

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‘PLAN FOR JOBS’ LAUNCHED TO ALLEVIATE UNEMPLOYMENT AFTER CORONAVIRUS CRISIS On 8 July, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, launched the UK government’s new ‘Plan for Jobs’. The scheme is intended to provide funds to help address the impact of the surge in unemployment expected to follow in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic. […]

Issue 106 | June 2020

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DFE PUBLISHES UPDATED GUIDANCE ON COLLEGE RE-OPENING On 15 June, the Department for Education (DfE) published updated guidance for colleges on the distancing arrangements they should put in place for when students began to return. Some might think that since 15 June was also the date when students were scheduled to begin to return, the updated […]

Issue 105 | May 2020

Following the announcement of government plans to begin the wider re-opening of schools and colleges in England, we thought we would abandon the Coronavirus briefings and begin to produce the usual monthly Click newsletter, albeit with a heavy Coronavirus content, and complete with the rubbish joke at the end. SHADOW EDUCATION MINISTERS FOR ENGLAND APPOINTED […]

Issue 104 | March 2020

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CORONAVIRUS CRISIS ALL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES CLOSED The government has announced that in response to the Coronavirus crisis, all schools, nurseries, private schools, FE and sixth form colleges in England (along with those in the rest of the UK) will be closed to the majority of pupils and students on Friday 20 March and ‘…will not […]

Issue 103 | February 2020

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CLICK UPDATE We hope you are all well and had a good half term if you managed to get a break. We have been busy recently with a wide variety of support requests such as: MIS support and training in preparation for audit; Apprenticeship partnership management and due diligence; Pension reporting liability and working with […]

Liz Chorley

Office Administrator

Liz has been with the team at Click since 2017, working both as an Administrator an Finance Assistant. During her previous career, she has worked at establishments such as South Staffordshire College as the School Links and HE Administrator and at QA Higher Education in Student Services and Registry. She brings years of experience to the role and is always ready to help our clients and associates achieve their goals. 

Outside of work, Liz enjoys reading crime fiction, spending time with friends and family and walking around her  local park, where she watches the deer and water birds.

Fun Fact: Liz was asked to leave the Brownies as a child, as she had removed the vicar’s gate during a challenge of finding items in his garden beginning with each letter of the alphabet. She still believes this wasn’t fair, as there was no other item beginning with the letter ‘G’!

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Wendy Preedy

Office Administrator

Wendy started working with Click back in 2011 in an Adminstrator role.  Before this, she had dedicated herself to a career in law, starting from the bottom as an Office Junior and having worked her way up to an Office Manager position. This has given her a keen eye for detail, which she uses to benefit both the team here and also those working with us.

Away from the office, Wendy enjoys spending time with her daughter and granddaughter. She loves to bake and also really enjoys dancing, having  even done masterclasses with Strictly professionals Natalie Lowe and Ian Waite!   

Fun Fact: Wendy’s a true fan of romantic novels, with her favourite being Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ – she loves the historical charm of the characters that Austen brings with her writing.

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Mandy Chapman

Finance Manager

Mandy started with Click at the formation of the company in 2009 as Finance Manager, overseeing the company’s planning, budgeting and reporting functions. She supports the team with sound day-to-day operations, a commitment to financial integrity and continuous improvement.

Previously, Mandy had worked in the voluntary sector with a children’s services project that supported parents and children with care and play opportunities, whilst providing training and work experience for people aiming to work with children.

Outside of work, she’s a passionate fan of live music and Aston Villa football club.  She’s also  a regular yoga enthusiast and enjoys reading and walking her dog.

Fun Fact: Mandy recently broke her finger in Venice whilst trying to touch the `lucky nose’ of a statue!

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Colin Smith

Executive Director

Colin began his career in the land-based sector before moving into further education as a teacher, working his way up the ranks to become a senior manager. He has been involved in a wide range of curriculum areas, including construction, commercial services and land based. Colin then moved into interim management roles with Click for 5 years before becoming a full-time member of the team in 2016. He particularly values his time  working with  students who find accessing education and learning more challenging. Colin is also a Vice Chair of Governors at a large London College and is a part time Ofsted inspector.

In his spare time, Colin enjoys travelling with his family and dog and is a keen reader.

Fun Fact: Colin is a huge fan of historical drama stories, such as the James Clavell Asia sagas – he loves how they paint a colourful picture of social attitudes and how those attitudes have changed over the centuries.

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Annette Howard

Executive Director

Armed with in-depth knowledge and know-how of the UK’s further education sector resourcing, Annette has been going the extra mile with clients at Click since 2015. As an experienced former senior college manager, she has worked across a wide range of colleges and areas of specialism, including apprenticeship growth, marketing and ESF projects. She also has worked as an interim manager, bringing first-hand experience in placing associates. Prior to working in the further education sector, Annette was in marketing and business development.

Outside of work she enjoys walking her two dogs and socialising with friends. She also loves to travel and is slowly working through her bucket list of places to visit.

Fun Fact: As part of her ‘turning 40 crisis’, Annette decided to run a half marathon. As she was nearing the finish line, the traffic policeman on duty reported into his walkie talkie ‘just the stragglers coming through now’ – she hasn’t run a race since!

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Kate Mulleady

Founder

Our Founder, Kate Mulleady, has decades of experience in successfully placing high-quality interim managers and consultants with all kinds of education and skills providers. Kate has an in-depth understanding of the challenges faced by the further education sector, having first-hand experience as a former senior college manager herself. She was the Executive Vice Principal at Sutton Coldfield college for 10 years, and Interim Vice Principal and a Governor at Dudley College.

In 2009, she noticed that further education professionals need to be secure in the knowledge that they are dealing with a resourcing team that truly understands their interim management needs, quality improvement goals and recruitment requirements. She set out to give clients all the certainty they’ll ever need, building a team that has first-hand knowledge and experience of working in the UK further education and skills provision, and that is how Click was created.

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