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Ofsted’s new provider monitoring and subcontracting visits explained

Paul Joyce, one of the inspectorate’s head skills honchos, lays out the thinking behind the two new forms of...

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How WorldSkills is just like the Olympics

With over 100,000 people at WorldSkills 2017, you realise the size of the task facing our top apprentices as...

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How FE can help prepare the UK’s next generation of doctors

Medicine has long been the near-exclusive preserve of higher education, but the QAA’s Julie Mizon has big plans to...

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What lessons can we learn from end-point assessments?

End-point assessment is a vital part of any apprenticeship, and Thomas Burton explains how to get it right. The...

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Time to close the loophole that harms Catholic SFCs

A legal anomaly is stopping Catholic sixth-form colleges from reaping the benefits of academisation. Putting this right would be...

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Market or system – what’s the best model for FE?

Further education is increasingly being used as a laboratory between competing models of education, and the market model is...

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Why is there no T-Level pathway for sport?

Elite sports is one of the hardest industries to break into, yet there are no plans for any technical...

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The government should focus on apprenticeship quality, not quantity

Without proper focus on apprenticeships at the top end, the government will never achieve its ambition to close the...

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Degree apprenticeships shouldn’t just be repackaged degrees

Martin Doel believes there can be a place for higher and degree apprenticeships – but they can’t be near-exact...

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