recruitment

FE recruitment hasn’t changed for 20 years. This year it must

Responding to ongoing challenges will require providers to adapt – and recruiters can and should be enablers in that...

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Amir Qureshi
Accountability

‘Prepared, not scared’: Why Ofsted should rethink inspection training

The watchdog's opposition to pre-inspection preparation and training is well-intentioned but harmful

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Kerry Boffey
Staffroom - Opinion

Using everyday tech to support learners with additional needs

Teaching learners with additional needs how to make use of the tools at their disposal supports their learning and...

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Georgina Davies
Equality and diversity

Working with employers to make apprenticeships more accessible to autistic learners

Apprenticeships can extend opportunities and diversify our workforce – but employers need support to make it happen. Here’s how...

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Paul Scales
Equality and diversity

Time for government to end racial inequalities in apprenticeships

It’s Race Equality Week as well as National Apprenticeships Week, and there’s more in common to their agendas than...

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Jeremy Crook
Apprenticeships

The numbers don’t lie; apprenticeships are a success story for opportunity

Our Ronseal apprenticeship model delivers ‘exactly what it says on the tin’ – but we will continue to improve...

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Robert Halfon MP
Functional skills

We must ensure functional skills are fit for the future

Reforms have made FSQs indistinguishable from GCSEs and turned them into a barrier to progress

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Paul Warner
Policy

Four recommendations to build construction’s workforce

Construction is under increasing pressures and a fragmented skills system is a barrier to meeting the challenges

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Graham Hasting-Evans
Workforce strategy

FE should lead recruitment – and ministers can make it happen 

Christian Warden reflects on recommendations for education and skills in the Building the Future Commission’s 2024 report

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Christian Warden