Governance

To pay or not to pay? The ‘divisive’ question of college governor remuneration

Relying on unpaid volunteers to hold college executive teams to account is either an important matter of principle or...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Politics

Skills policy just moved house, and the neighbourhood matters

Every department brings its own instincts. In the DWP, skills will be filtered through a jobs lens. That could...

Jessica Hill
Alex Morris
The Staffroom - opinion

AI isn’t just for coders, it’s the new digital literacy every learner needs

Barnsley College’s ‘Introduction to AI’ course shows how colleges can turn a perceived threat into a practical tool for...

Jessica Hill
Daniel Wright
Careers guidance

We need to rethink careers guidance for a changing generation

Careers guidance in the UK is stuck in the past, leaving too many young people without pathways into meaningful...

Jessica Hill
Natasha Eason
Colleges

Rethinking PD: How colleges can build learning cultures

A new guide offers evidence-based steps for leaders to design PD which inspires staff, drives improvement and transforms outcomes...

Jessica Hill
Kath Davies
Skills reform

Pat’s skills nightmare: The kitchen is on fire

If Gordon Ramsay walked into today’s skills sector, he would be screaming. Funding is broken, bureaucracy is bloated and...

Jessica Hill
Mark Dawe
Skills reform

Engineering’s skills crunch can be solved with our plan

From nuclear to renewables, hydrogen to carbon capture, major projects demand a workforce ready to deliver. Our five-year plan...

Jessica Hill
Andrew Hockey
Skills reform

We need the same rigour of teaching in colleges as in schools

Schools soared up the international league tables under Gove and Gibb. Colleges, by contrast, remain the poor relation. It’s...

Jessica Hill
Will Bickford Smith
Skills reform

Tom Bewick, author of Skills Policy in Britain and the Future of Work

If history often rhymes, as Mark Twain once said, then Tom Bewick’s book, Skills Policy in England and the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill