Funding

If your skills strategy isn’t funding – it’s not worth talking about

However good a national skills strategy looks on paper, it simply can’t be delivered by a system on the...

JL Dutaut
Mark Dawe
LSIPs

Employer partnerships are no longer enough to tackle the skills crisis 

LSIPs require us to look beyond competition between education providers to maximise investment and impact, explains Louise Wolsey

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Louise Wolsey
The Staffroom - opinion

How to embed ED&I into your everyday teaching and learning

All learners can benefit from an equality, diversity and inclusion mindset from their teachers, explains Faisal Arif. All it...

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Faisal Arif
Funding

Are private equity backers bad apples or golden eggs?

Anyone tempted by a potentially lucrative private-equity deal should carefully consider the incentives and the potential repercussions, writes Alex...

JL Dutaut
Alex Lockey
Policy

Whitehall doesn’t know best – but devolution is harming skills policy

We need to end 'Whitehall knows best' while undoing the harms devolution is doing by dividing our efforts, says...

JL Dutaut
Tom Bewick
Lifelong Learning

Awarding organisations are perfectly placed to break barriers to LLE 

Mary Curnock Cook reveals key recommendations to overcome hurdles on the way to launching the new lifelong learning entitlement

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Mary Curnock Cook
Literacy

FE needed a movement to improve literacy. Now it’s got one

A new collective has set itself the aim of harnessing literacy for social mobility across the curriculum, explains Kirsty...

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Kirsty Haughton
The Staffroom - opinion

Remembering Henrietta. Why every learner should know about a silenced contribution to medical science

After this summer’s development, everyone should learn about the most important contributor to science you’ve never heard of, says...

JL Dutaut
Gail Pringle
Green skills

Let’s work together on the green industry-ready learners we all need

We need a circular economy of support to improve the quality of climate change knowledge and preparation, says Adam...

JL Dutaut
Adam Read