Opinion

Functional skills can deliver what employers need

Parity should be maintained between how GCSEs and functional skills are valued by the government, says Stella Turner With...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

FE needs better support to help post-16s pass maths and English

The government, schools, trade unions, parents and carers all need to work together in a new drive to improve...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

If employers are from Mars and young people are from Venus… better literacy can bring them into same orbit

Young people need to learn from employers why they need better literacy skills to thrive in the workplace, says...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford

Maths and English

Download your free copy of the FE Week 16-page special on maths and English education and policy in FE, sponsored...

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News

Ofqual announces detail of new maths and English GCSEs

Ofqual has published full details of the new maths and English GCSEs which will be introduced from 2015. In...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Government must not ‘tie hands’ of college staff who want to help struggling 49pc

The FE sector wants to play a key role in improving literacy and numeracy levels, but it could be...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

More employers wanted as college governors say AoC

The Association of Colleges’ Governors’ Council wants more employers at board level, but rejected bringing back diversity quotas. It...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Exclusive: SFA ‘should scrap’ funding data deadline

More than four in every five FE data staff believe the funding data return for the 2013/14 academic year...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Support for agency chief in cancer fight

Warm tributes have been paid to Skills Funding Agency chief executive Kim Thorneywork after it was announced she was...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford