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Colleges'Staff Recruitment Systems

https://www.collegewebsites.ac.uk/technical-reviews/recruitment-pages

This is a review of the 449 job vacancies pages and the recruitment systems in use to optimise the number and quality of applicants and to automate the process of completed applications submitted by potential employees, from Chief Executive and Principal to Farrier and Website Officer.

Amazingly, for 225 Colleges their choice is to have no digital system in place and to simply post vacancies as content on the website. My guess is the cause for such a high number of non-technical operations are the extortionate prices charged by commercial service providers such as FE Jobs - £6,000 for the basic service - and that this is a clear case for a Sector owned, easy to integrate and to administer Vacancies Service.

Colleges'Staff Recruitment Systems

https://www.collegewebsites.ac.uk/technical-reviews/recruitment-pages

This is a review of the 449 job vacancies pages and the recruitment systems in use to optimise the number and quality of applicants and to automate the process of completed applications submitted by potential employees, from Chief Executive and Principal to Farrier and Website Officer.

Amazingly, for 225 Colleges their choice is to have no digital system in place and to simply post vacancies as content on the website. My guess is the cause for such a high number of non-technical operations are the extortionate prices charged by commercial service providers such as FE Jobs - £6,000 for the basic service - and that this is a clear case for a Sector owned, easy to integrate and to administer Vacancies Service.

Anyway, here is a list of the digital systems currently in use alongside the total of Colleges using each:

42 - iTrent 1 - Cintra IQ
28 - eTeach/FE Jobs 1 - Gravity Form
22 - Networx 1 - HF Labs
18 - Vacancy Filler 1 - Hire Wire
12 - Blue Octopus 1 - Hireserve
11 - Access Group rEcruit 1 - iRecruit
8 - Software for People 1 - Jobs Go Public
6 - My Job Scotland 1 - jobs.ac.uk
6 - TES 1 - LinkedIn
3 - AoC Jobs 1 - Monster Solutions
3 - CV Minder 1 - Oracle Taleo
2 - Cezanne 1 - Stonefish
2 - Change Work Now 1 - SurveyMonkey
2 - Engage ATS 1 - Tal.Net
2 - North East Jobs 1 - WCN
1 - School Recruiter 1 - Webrecruit
1 - Belfast Met E-Link Solutions Total: 185 from 449 College Websites

Coincidentally Shawn Bradley from Perkbox is hosting Lucy Adams from Disruptive HR in a webinar next Tuesday titled How Human Resources Can Stop Stressing.


College Social Media Logos

https://www.collegewebsites.ac.uk/content-reviews/logos-website-social-media/instagram

Completing the quartet of social media corporate logos, this is the Instagram Logos Table. As with Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter Logos there are high and low resolution images, inventive and creative designs, and, especially for Instagram, an image sharing platform, maddeningly poor selections and ill considered framing.


Monthly Alexa Website Traffic Rankings in Order

https://www.collegewebsites.ac.uk/traffic-reviews/current-alexa-rankings-in-order

There really is not any real variation each month with top performing Colleges continuing to perform well. Further down the rankings Leeds City College at 19th, Croydon College at 49th, and Stockport College at 73rd, are all better ranked than at anytime since this monthly report commenced back in November 2016; so well done to their Marketing Teams:
Leeds City College
Croydon Colege
Stockport College

2019 Best Virtual Learning Environments Report

There are 406 Virtual Learning Environments used in the FE/6F/AE sector.

The majority of VLEs are hidden behind a login screen and only a handful fully achieve a developed offer. This report shows the data from methodically testing all of 406 VLEs and has identified and detailed the best using a simple set of metrics. It then lays out 15 straightforward projects, costing almost no time or money to complete, that will substantially improve the user experience, and therefore the outcomes, of students.

Activate Learning Aquinas College Ashton 6th Form College
Activate Learning Aquinas College Ashton Sixth Form College
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All Current Reports

 21 April 2025    General Reviews    Updated 

 CEO/Principal Profiles

 20 February 2025    General Reviews    New 

 2023/24 Financial Data

 31 January 2025    Content Reviews   Updated 

 All Financial Documents

 3 January 2025    Content Reviews    Updated 

 All Heads/Principals/CEOs

8 February 2022    Logos

 LinkedIn Profile Logos

6 January 2022    Logos

 Live Twitter Logos

 27 October 2021    Logos

 College Website Logos

Abbeygate Sixth Form College Abingdon and Witney College Access Creative College Accrington and Rossendale College Activate Learning Group
Ada College Addysg Oedolion Cymru Aldridge Adult Learning Andover College Aquinas College
Ashton College Askham Bryan College Ayrshire College Barking and Dagenham College Barnet Southgate College
Barnfield College Barnsley College Barnsley Sixth Form College Barton Peveril College Basingstoke College of Technology
Bath College Bede Sixth Form College Bedford College Group Bexhill Sixth Form College Belfast Metropolitan College

 23 April 2020    Logos

 Facebook Company Logos

 29 April 2020    Logos

 Instagram Company Logos.

11 March 2019    Content Reviews

 Open Events.

 10 May 2018    Logos

 Live YouTube Logos.