JL Dutaut | FE Week

AI won’t kill creativity. It can prompt more students to discover theirs

The best way to mitigate against learners using AI to cheat is to ensure there are tools that use its potential to help them, writes Pamela Dale

If we really want to deliver diversity, we need a Public Services T Level

The transition to T levels can’t be allowed to leave gaps in place of popular courses fulfilling an important social role, writes Gemma Simmons-Blench

Funding obstinacy is killing off apprenticeships that are crucial to our economy

The HGV & Bus and Coach Standards Trailblazer Group has been working with IfATE to rectify a serious funding mishap in 2019 that reduced the funding band from £18,000 to £15,000 for the three-year HGV technician apprenticeship. Like many other industries, we are operating in a very tight labour market. It takes nearly four years […]

Reinvigorating the apprenticeship brand isn’t all about funding – but that would help too

We need to see an uplift in the separate funding rate, writes Sue Pittock, but there’s plenty more that ministers can do to improve apprenticeships and boost the brand

The success of London Multiply demonstrates the importance of adopting a local approach

London’s success in delivering numeracy programmes shows we need more local decision-making to upskill and reskill workers, writes Jules Pipe

How East Anglian colleges have put aside competition to deliver sustainability together

Colleges across East Anglia have been working together to adapt curriculum and facilities for a sustainable future, explain Emma Taylor and Andrew Wheeler

What we really mean when we talk about likeable teachers

Debates about whether teachers need to be likeable never get anywhere because the idea of likeability itself misses the mark, writes David Murray

Student loan changes don’t make apprenticeships more attractive – but they do change the game

New university student loan
terms won’t impact student
choice, says Tony Pitchford, but
they do signal a bigger shift
towards careers-led education

What Building Better Opportunities teaches us about stimulating labour market participation

Locally led, well-resourced and longer-term programmes could see us out of the current crisis in labour market participation, writes Graham Duxbury