Governance

The four Ps that will ensure your external governance review brings value for money

The new mandatory requirement for external governance review represents a substantial investment, writes Melissa Drayson, so it’s important to...

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Melissa Drayson
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships diversity still lags and now is the time to act

National Apprenticeships Week and Race Equality Week happen at the same time – a coincidence that should speak volumes...

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Payal Bhavsar
Online learning

Online learning: Placing efficiency and quality at the AI revolution’s heart

Mark Dawe scopes out the dawning landscape of a sector revolutionised by online and blended learning and sets out...

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Mark Dawe
The Staffroom - opinion

The Staffroom: Helping learners develop their writer’s voice

Reducing cognitive load and scaffolding learners’ progress allows them to do more than learn discrete skills, says Kerry Scattergood....

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Kerry Scattergood
Skills reform

Keegan should stick to her guns and show BTECs both barrels

Gillian Keegan should ignore her nay-sayer predecessors and make the change that will finally deliver world-class technical education

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Jon Yates
Spring budget

Spring budget: Time for politicians to put money where their mouth is

It’s time to stop telling us ‘more needs to be done’ and start doing it, writes David Hughes. The...

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David Hughes
Digital

Digital skills: Gaps and shortages mean it’s time to scale up to level up

Expanding expertise and resources is necessary to tackle skills shoratges and a lack of diversity in the digital sector,...

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Mark Smith
social mobility

Improving social mobility demands better data on FE outcomes

New research shows FE courses lead to better earnings but their social mobility potential is limited by patchy and...

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Alun Francis
edtech

What FE should learn from edtech’s pandemic legacy (and what it shouldn’t)

Edtech’s pandemic legacy should not be defined by buyer’s remorse but by the clear need for a longer-term strategy...

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James Earl