Author: FE Week Reporter

Support for new principals is a key priority, says John Smith. But who will provide a framework as LSIS winds down? Ofsted’s chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw is right: the key to successful leadership and management essentially, but not exclusively, lies with the principal.  If not, what are principals for? But how are new principals […]

ERS practitioners can now have their skills and expertise properly acknowledged. About time too, says Helen Richardson FE colleges are playing a greater role in the delivery of employment related services (ERS) to jobseekers claiming Jobcentre Plus benefits (more than 200,000 unemployed people undertake education or training at colleges). The introduction of a single adult […]

City & Guilds’ Content Exchange will share digital learning materials, saving time for tutors and students who spend hours looking for quality resources, says Kirstie Donnelly Technology has connected the world. Young people who have grown up with mobile phones and laptops can’t imagine a world without it. About 75 per cent of 16 to […]

A new partnership of sixth-form colleges is determined to pursue high performance, innovation and creativity, says Simon Jarvis Ten of the country’s leading sixth-form colleges have formed a partnership The Maple Group, to maintain and promote outstanding teaching and learning. Group colleges make a significant contribution to the nation’s economy: together, more than 20,000 youngsters […]

As the government seeks to define vocational qualifications and strip out those that are not ‘rigorous’, Lynne Sedgmore reflects on the purpose of vocational education and training We sometimes get so caught up in the detail of the latest initiative that obvious contradictions fail to leap out at us. The publication of It’s About Work…, […]