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How to ensure EDI is more than a box-ticking exercise

Building a culture of diversity and inclusion can take you far beyond mere targets and win over the unconvinced, explains Leah Stone

ChatGPT: FE institutions need a solid policy to manage the AI revolution

AI tools are on the cusp of transforming classrooms and an effective policy is crucial to ensuring institutions aren’t rocked by this revolution, writes Ruth Sparkes

Maths to 18: A policy in search of a strategy

Sixth form colleges stand ready to deliver the prime minister’s ‘maths for all’ ambition, says Bill Watkin, but there’s a long road before it’s a realistic possibility

Abolish Ofsted? We have better things to focus on

Ofsted must do better amid the sector’s perma-crisis but lowering the stakes of inspection is firmly down to colleges and their communities, writes Stuart Rimmer

Apprenticeships: Employer engagement is key to widening access

London Design and Engineering UTC’ employer engagement provides a model for opening the doors to apprenticeships for all, writes Jeremy Galpin

The cost-of-living crisis is becoming a cost-of-learning crisis

Learners are increasingly
forced to make horrible
choices between cash or the
classroom, says Josh Spears

Competition is healthy if it’s done in the right way

Skills contests develop the professional and technical skills of learners – and the professional development of their teachers, says Daniel Thomas

‘Growing our own’ can help plug gaps in recruitment

The challenge of recruiting and retaining teachers at all levels is becoming increasingly acute, exacerbated in FE due to the sector’s substantially lower pay scales. That is the troubling backdrop for the country’s colleges as they strive to return to pre-Covid staffing levels, and it is no surprise that the services that were worse affected […]

We know how to fix FE’s staffing shortages. It’s time college leaders did it

In-work poverty is a reality for many FE staff, writes Maxine Looby, and ignoring recommendations for pay awards every year just won’t wash anymore