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
Long read, 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
Skills reform

No one left offline: Education must power NHS digital reform

The government’s 10-Year Health Plan promises a bold leap into AI-driven, community-led healthcare. But without a coordinated education strategy,...

Jessica Hill
Joe Neame
Colleges

Successes and failures down under can guide FE reform here

The UK’s FE system is stuck in silos. Lessons from New Zealand and Victoria in Australia show how bold...

Jessica Hill
Liam Sloan
Apprenticeships

Creative industries can’t thrive without apprenticeships

The UK’s creative industries outstrip aerospace and automotive combined, but a lack of highly skilled workers threatens to derail...

Jessica Hill
Professor David Mba and Professor Zey Suka-Bill
AI

Trust AI to help deliver FE’s promise of personalised learning

FE Colleges are sitting on a depth of data. With AI, that data becomes a tool for better teaching,...

Jessica Hill
Matthew McShane