Bosses prepare plans for post-VEC world

The incoming bosses of the boards replacing vocational education committees (VEC) have been selected and have started to plan next year’s changeover.

The 16 chief executives were picked from among the 19 full-time CEOs of the 33 city and county VECs, which will be replaced by education and training boards (ETBs) early next year. The most senior serving CEOs were given first choice of the new body they wanted to head up.

The three unassigned full-time CEOs will be redeployed in education or the wider public sector. The 14 who have been acting CEOs on rolling short-term contracts will return to the jobs they previously held in the VECs, but could be offered a vacant CEO’s position.