Adult education If the Cook Islands can commit to lifelong learning, why can’t we? Dozens of nations have a lifelong learning strategy. England does not. As adult education participation falls and funding shrinks,… Jessica Hill 11mins Simon Parkinson 11mins FE workforce Teachers need work experience too if new pathways are to succeed Regular, structured opportunities for teachers to refresh and develop their subject knowledge is vital Jessica Hill 2d Jo Swindells 2d FE workforce FE’s leadership pipeline is missing a generation FE’s leadership culture often equates experience with time served. That assumption is filtering out talent, and creating succession risks… Jessica Hill 2d Imran Mir 2d Opinion The blitz on leadership training is daft policy that drains growth Axing leadership and management apprenticeships stifles inclusivity and blunts the UK’s competitive edge Jessica Hill 3d Dr Mandy Crawford-Lee 3d Young people Our learners can’t wait years to see the fruit of their labour Our reward systems are built for adults, not teenagers, and it’s sometimes unrealistic to expect them to understand attendance… Jessica Hill 4d Daniel Waterhouse 4d Opinion Minimum wage makes 16-year-old apprentices too pricey to employ With apprenticeship starts for young people at historic lows, it’s time to consider that well-intentioned policy decisions may have… Jessica Hill 5d John Laramy 5d FE workforce Could clear workforce roles help attract and retain more FE teachers? The government wants 6,500 more teachers in schools and colleges, but the FE workforce is a patchwork of roles… Jessica Hill 6d Jenna Julius 6d The Staffroom – opinion Careers guidance isn’t an add-on, it’s the basis of NEET prevention Treating careers guidance as a leadership priority rather than a compliance exercise helped us drive NEET rates below the… Jessica Hill 6d Kathryn O’Neill 6d Skills reform Reclaiming apprenticeships for the next generation Apprenticeships were designed to give young people their first step into skilled work. After a decade of declining youth… Jessica Hill 7d Praful Nargund 7d Colleges Having a four-day teaching week provides a fifth day for real life Our learners had the qualifications, but not always the work skills. By redesigning our timetable we treated preparation for… Jessica Hill 1w Martin Twist 1w Adult education Adult learning deserves a national conversation Too often policy is made without hearing from the people delivering it. A new APPG inquiry into adult education… Jessica Hill 1w Jonathan Brash 1w Colleges FE can’t fix recruitment while losing staff to the menopause When around 80,000 of FE staff are biological women aged over 40, menopause puts a huge strain on the… Jessica Hill 1w Vicky Mose 1w 1 2 3 4 5 6 262 Older
