News

DfE publishes list of mandatory qualifications for learners without grade C or above in GCSE English and maths

The Department for Education (DfE) has published a list of English and maths qualifications that providers must choose from as a...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Niace chief in gruelling father-and-son charity cycle from Land’s End to John O’Groats — and a bit

There are surely less gruelling ways of spending quality father-and-son time than a bike ride the length of Great...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

So long, and thanks for all the FE

After 18 months at Newham College, and a number of FE Insider columns, Ben Nicholls is departing the world...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Looking deeper into the reshuffle at DfE and BIS

While those in FE and skills wait with bated breath to find out how new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

A bottom-up approach to CPD is ‘best’

Imparting knowledge of teaching is not always best done from the “top,” explains Andrea McMahon. After attending his first...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Gazelle ‘front-runner’ for ETF’s £1m learning tech contract

The Gazelle Foundation has been awarded a £1m learning technology contract from the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) amid...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

What’s the ‘interest rate’ on FE loans now? 

When I wrote in FE Week three months ago about the second annual round of FE Loans, the new...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
News

Trade union and business leaders set for agreement over traineeship pay and work experience

Trade union and business leaders are negotiating a joint agreement on traineeships over the issues of pay and work...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Are UTCs another ‘purely political vanity project’ set for the history books?

Hackney University Technical College (UTC) is to shut at the end of 2014/15 because of low recruitment numbers — just...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford