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SE Region: The Tutorial and Diversity Showcase at Cambridge Regional College
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Watch this space for the West Midlands and East Midlands dates coming up after the summer holidays. So do check back.
Yorkshire and Humberside fbfe Faith Forum: Wednesday 25th November 2009 to be held at John Leggott College.
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Employability and Spirituality
The place of spiritual, moral, social and cultural education (smsc) in 14-19 Diplomas.
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Welcome to fbfe – the National Council of Faiths and Beliefs in Further Education. fbfe is a national independent inter-faith charity working with the learning and skills sector, faith and local communities and national and local faith/belief based groups.
Dr. Ann Limb worked in the FE sector for 25 years and when appointed as Principal of Milton Keynes College in 1987 became the youngest FE College Principal in the UK and one of the first women Principals. She took on the role of Chair of NEAFE in 2000, whilst CEO of the government's flagship e-services programmes learndirect and UK online. Rev Lynne Sedgmore CBE has worked in the FE sector for 28 years in a range of lecturing, leadership and curriculum roles. Her most recent roles include CEO of the Centre for Excellence and of the 157 Group. She is an ordained minister, a Benedictine Oblate and Spiritual Director.
The early years
Some time in the early seventies, a small group of college principals and senior managers in the further education system, most involved as private citizens in their own different churches, and many active trade unionists, got together to set up the National Ecumenical Agency Further Education (NEAFE), an independent, non governmentally funded charitable body, providing a forum for dialogue between Christians of all denominations and FE professionals. Most, if not all of these pioneers are now dead and so we have only the memories and recollections of those of us who worked with some of our ’founding fathers’ (and they were all men!) together with the records of minutes of meetings on which to draw to compile this short history. We know that the first AGM of NEAFE took place in 1976, not surprisingly the same year that saw the formation of the sector’s own trade union, the National Association for Teachers in Further and Higher Education (NATFHE), which came into being on 1 January 1976. This was a fertile and exciting time in the FE sector. The 1960s and early seventies had seen significant expansion in business and technical education – what we now know as ‘vocational education’ - with the creation of the Technician Education Council (TEC) in 1973 and the Business Education Council (BEC) in 1974 and institutional consolidation as smaller colleges amalgamated. It is against such a background that NEAFE was formed ‘to promote the concern of the churches and other bodies for the development of moral and spiritual values in the field of post-school, non-advanced education’ as NEAFE’s constitution states. Follow this link to read the FULL CIRCLE REPORT, on the Documents page under fbfe documents..