Skills reform

Britain’s growth plan will fail without level 4 and 5 skills

If the industrial strategy is serious about advanced manufacturing, it must finally fix the “missing middle” in our skills...

Jessica Hill
Jamie Cater
FE workforce

Teachers need work experience too if new pathways are to succeed

Regular, structured opportunities for teachers to refresh and develop their subject knowledge is vital

Jessica Hill
Jo Swindells
Opinion

The blitz on leadership training is daft policy that drains growth

Axing leadership and management apprenticeships stifles inclusivity and blunts the UK’s competitive edge

Jessica Hill
Dr Mandy Crawford-Lee
The Staffroom - opinion

It pays to be playful when launching new technology

Digital CPD too often overwhelms staff with instructions and tools they barely understand. So let them try to break...

Jessica Hill
Richard Harris
FE workforce

Could clear workforce roles help attract and retain more FE teachers?

The government wants 6,500 more teachers in schools and colleges, but the FE workforce is a patchwork of roles...

Jessica Hill
Jenna Julius
Skills reform

Reclaiming apprenticeships for the next generation

Apprenticeships were designed to give young people their first step into skilled work. After a decade of declining youth...

Jessica Hill
Praful Nargund
Skills reform

The cracks are in the delivery system, not the qualifications

If ministers want to stop young people 'falling through the cracks', they must confront the real problem: a school...

Jessica Hill
Andy Forbes
Long read, Ofsted

Kerry Boffey, chief executive of the Fellowship of Inspection Nominees

Kerry Boffey helps FE providers navigate Ofsted inspections as boss of FIN – and she tells Jessica Hill the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Adult education

Adult learning deserves a national conversation

Too often policy is made without hearing from the people delivering it. A new APPG inquiry into adult education...

Jessica Hill
Jonathan Brash