WARWICK University has reconciled its differences over the training of lecturers with the further education national training organisation and the two organisations are co-operating once more.
The university’s Cert Ed course leader, professor John Field, had rejected the FENTO standards, protesting that adopting them would cause a “fall in quality”.
FENTO’s chief executive, David Hunter, said he was prepared to “talk it over” with Warwick, at the same time pointing out that new lecturers need FENTO accreditation to get work.
A joint statement said that Warwick has carried out a review of its FE teacher-training programme, although it is not clear what changes FENTO, initially described as “awful” by the university, has made.
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