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- #LoveOurColleges week is here! Here’s how to take part
- ‘The confidence to keep going’
- 3 students’ journey to work placement, employment and beyond!
- A dynamic and collaborative sector
- A smooth transition
- An effective and financially sustainable approach to SEND?
- Announcing the shortlist for the 2020 Natspec Awards
- Announcing the shortlist for the 2021 Natspec Awards
- Announcing the shortlist for the 2022 Natspec Awards
- Announcing the shortlist for the 2023 Natspec Innovation Awards
- Announcing the TechAbility Conference – Raising Standards
- Announcing the winners of the Natspec Innovation Awards 2023
- Applications open for new Natspec Awards
- Apply now for new TechAbility role
- Are Students at the Centre of our Technology Provision?
- Asset based development: “Every individual has a gift to give”
- Expired: Assistant Head Teacher – Wargrave House, Warrington
- Assistive Technology at Catcote Futures
- Assistive Technology – address the complex and the basic
- Ben’s story: Specialist education is worth the distance
- Benjamin’s story: moving on to work and life
- Better together: breaking down the general / specialist divide in further education
- Blocks in the road to an inclusive FE system in Wales
- Breaking down the binary system
- Celebrating success: Natspec Highlights July 2019
- Charlie’s story: from college to paid employment
- Charlotte’s story: Soaring through college and life
- Clare Howard awarded OBE in King’s Birthday Honours
- Coaching: getting to know what you don’t know
- Competing with the best
- Cooking up a storm & earning new skills
- Corey’s story: being set up for life
- Coronavirus and Specialist Colleges: What’s the State of Play?
- Demonstrating what disabled young people can achieve
- EHCPs and High Needs in FE: the key facts
- Eliot opens his own business
- Emily’s story: from college to paid employment
- Erasmus+ social inclusion project
- ETF Study Programmes toolkit launch for SEND FE
- Finding her voice
- Flourishing at work
- Foxes Academy wins FE Provider of the Year
- Freedom to move on her own
- Gaining ground and new experiences
- Gavin Williamson: new Secretary of State for Education
- Government consultation on reviewing SEND funding May 2019
- Greater scrutiny of local SEND arrangements on the horizon
- Hard work paid off
- Expired: Head of Education – Coleg Elidyr, Llandovery
- Head of Therapy and Clinical Services – Wargrave House, Warrington
- High Needs in FE – the key facts
- High Needs, High Aspirations: Natspec National Conference 2019
- His confidence has grown
- How can we ensure 16-25 SEND provision is at the heart of local area inclusion planning?
- How will Additional Learning Needs Transformation in Wales serve young people with complex needs?
- I loved working in a hotel
- I want to be independent
- Inclusion in Further Education
- Inclusive Skills competition finals 2017
- Inclusive Skills Competitions 2018
- Introducing Kirsten Jones as our new Welsh Policy Officer
- Investing in supported internships
- Jess’s Story: increasing confidence and finding opportunities
- John’s Story: Comfort Grows Confidence
- Kemi Badenoch replaces Nadhim Zahawi as children and families minister
- Key Facts: High needs provision in FE
- Latest news from DfE
- Latest SEND statistics and news from DfE
- Launching the 2021 Natspec Awards
- Learner voice: new research project
- Learning Disability Week 2018: Highlights
- Lee wins national competition
- Lee wins supported internship
- Lenehan review of residential education published
- Lessons from the election for SEND Professionals
- Lewis’s story: specialist provision allows him to thrive
- Liam’s journey: digging his way to success!
- Making work experience count
- Manny’s Story: Finding his voice
- Maths Week 2019 Winner Announced
- Maths Week winners announced
- Matthew’s Story: Presentation Matters
- Mechanical interest turns into employment
- Meet David Smith MBE at the Natspec conference
- Megan’s story: from college, to work and life.
- Mitchel’s Story: Combining Work with Paralympic Training
- Moving on to an Apprenticeship
- National Numeracy Day 2019
- National Star College receives Outstanding judgement
- National Star wins Specialist Provider of the Year
- Natspec and ACER deliver new ETF Project
- Natspec Awards 2020: Winners
- Natspec Awards 2021: Winners
- Natspec Awards 2022: Winners
- Natspec calls for capital funding for specialist FE colleges
- Natspec delegates speak to TechAbility experts
- Natspec events announcement: 2018
- Natspec Games 2018
- Natspec Games 2019 – North West
- Natspec Games 2019 – South West
- Natspec Games 2019 – Yorkshire and Humber
- Natspec Games hailed a success
- Natspec Highlights April 2021
- Natspec Highlights April 2022
- Natspec Highlights Autumn 2022
- Natspec Highlights December 2020
- Natspec Highlights December 2021
- Natspec Highlights February 2020
- Natspec Highlights February 2021
- Natspec Highlights February 2022
- Natspec Highlights January 2020
- Natspec Highlights January 2021
- Natspec Highlights January 2022
- Natspec Highlights July 2021
- Natspec Highlights June 2019
- Natspec Highlights June 2021
- Natspec Highlights June 2022
- Natspec Highlights March 2020
- Natspec Highlights May 2021
- Natspec Highlights November 2019
- Natspec Highlights November 2020
- Natspec Highlights November 2021
- Natspec Highlights October 2019
- Natspec Highlights October 2020
- Natspec Highlights October 2021
- Natspec Highlights September 2019
- Natspec Highlights September 2020
- Natspec Highlights September 2021
- Natspec Highlights Summer 2022
- Natspec Highlights | April 2019
- Natspec Highlights | May 2019
- Natspec National Conference 2020: A Question of Quality
- Natspec Network | December Highlights
- Natspec Network | February 2019 Highlights
- Natspec Network | January 2019 Highlights
- Natspec Network | March 2019 Highlights
- Natspec Network: July Highlights
- Natspec Network: June Highlights
- Natspec Network: November Highlights
- Natspec Network: September highlights
- Natspec News
- Natspec News
- Natspec News February 2017
- Natspec responds to SEND and AP improvement plan
- Natspec responds to the pause and review of level 3 and below qualifications
- Natspec responds to the SEND and alternative provision Green Paper
- Natspec responds to the SEND and AP Green Paper consultation
- Natspec Response to Education Select Committee Report
- Natspec Response to Government’s new major review of SEND provision
- Natspec response to Improving Lives: DWP Green Paper
- Natspec Response to School & College Funding Increase
- Natspec Student Parliament sends a clear message to the Disability Unit
- Natspec Student Voice Parliament – May 2022
- Natspec welcome Gillian Keegan
- Natspec welcomes Nadhim Zahawi as new Education Secretary
- Natspec welcomes the new government
- Natspec’s response to the Ofsted Annual Report
- Natspec’s Review of the Year 2020-21
- New Centres for Excellence in SEND announced
- Next stop – university
- Not one job – but three!
- Now I have my own flat
- Ofsted’s Education Inspection Framework
- Ofsted’s Nigel Evans says farewell to Natspec
- Oliver’s story: Exceeding expectations
- Olivia’s story: going from strength to strength!
- Orpheus student Awa pursues her dream of directing
- Outstanding! Natspec colleges receive highest grade
- Paralympian joins conference
- Peer learning – what’s in it for you and me?
- Philip’s Story: Gaining New Skills in the Workplace
- Praised for his motivation
- QAC student causes a stir at local café
- Quality Times Issue Nine
- Quality Times Issue Ten
- Radical re-working needed for the high needs further education system
- Reflections on Bett
- Report reveals anger and frustration at quality of post-16 information
- Review of school exclusions and new fund for alternative provision announced
- Rhys’ story: Rising star secures job at FTSE 100 company
- Robert’s story: From school to independent living
- Role of residential specialist colleges
- Sam’s story: building confidence through a love of animals
- SEND in FE: swimming together out of the treacle?
- Shadow Minister sets out Labour’s vision for education
- She’s so keen to work
- Sir Richard Stilgoe speaks at conference and helps celebrate Maths Week
- Skills for Work and Life Tutor – Bevan College, Bridgend
- So excited to have a job
- Student Voice Parliament
- Student Voice Parliament 12 November
- Student Voice Parliament – 11 June
- Students speak out
- Sudio’s Story: Residential Specialist College is a perfect fit
- Supported internship pilot programme leads to great results
- Tay’s Story: Finding Retail Success
- TechAbility AT Champions: Building a community of practice
- TechAbility Conference 2018: Summary
- TechAbility Conference 2023 – balancing futuristic and fundamental
- TechAbility Standards: a route-map to excellence in assistive technology
- Technology makes a difference
- Technology project launched
- The Local Offer – a help or a hindrance?
- The NAO report and the PAC Inquiry: how the headlines change for FE
- The Natspec Conference 2023 – what did we learn?
- The postcode lottery of post-19 education provision
- The SEND and AP improvement plan: less a big bang than a damp squib for FE
- The stage is her dream
- The “safety valve” intervention programme – how lessons need to be adapted for post-16
- These girls can!
- Thomas’s Story: communication leads to confidence
- Tom’s Story: Success comes from mixing it up!
- Expired: Tutor with Employment Specialist Knowledge – Bridge College, Manchester
- Two years of Student Parliament
- Unlocking potential: a manifesto for specialist FE
- Upcoming Natspec Games 2019
- Valuing innovation
- Valuing specialism; realising potential
- Wales Manifesto: Valuing Specialism, Realising Potential
- Welcoming David Johnston MP, the new Children’s Minister
- What does ‘Inclusion in FE’ mean for students with SEND?
- What might the SEND and AP Paper mean for 16-25 year olds?
- What’s the future for personal, social and employability (PSE) skills qualifications?
- When is new FE provision for SEND students needed, and how do we ensure quality?
- Why learner voice work is win win
- Work Experience Students at Natspec’s National Conference
- Work Placement Success in Triplicate!
- Working in Partnership: a vision of the future of SEND in FE
- Your views wanted
- Condition of Funding rule changes will “remove learning opportunities” for students with SEND
- “High Needs funding under intolerable pressure” Dame Christine Lenehan
- “Law trumps policy” ISPEA CEO Ali Fiddy navigates SEND and the law
- SEND funding announcement: Natspec response
