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Carpenter swaps sawdust for massage oil after losing his sight

Brave ex-carpenter Sam Appleton has gone back to Basingstoke College of Technology to retrain as a masseuse having gone...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Defending colleges and their ‘realistic’ workplace offer

Traineeships are the latest example of the myth that colleges cannot provide a true-to-life working environment for learners, says...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Making vocational education the ‘envy of the world’

After a year in office, Skills Minister Matthew Hancock provides an update on his four priorities for vocational education....

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Do colleges train too many hairdressers?

Plenty of apprenticeship starts and a high public spend on training would suggest a wealth of hairdressers, but an...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The taxing issue of future funding in a world of cuts

With government spending on adult skills set to fall over the coming years, Mark Corney tries to find a...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Employers prepare to take wheel of new Career Colleges

Career Colleges will set their 14-year-old learners off on the path of a career with the aim of getting...

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FE Week Reporter
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College has seen many changes…just like these ‘old boys’

Leyton Sixth Form College hosted a 50-year reunion for former grammar school students. The building now used for the...

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FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Keeping apprentice assessment and commercial interests apart

How do you judge whether apprentices are truly prepared to qualify, and who decides? Iain Macdonald puts the case...

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FE Week Reporter
News

Stockport goes from grade one to four

A 9,000-learner college in Greater Manchester has plummeted from an outstanding Ofsted rating to inadequate. Stockport College achieved the...

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FE Week Reporter