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 15h Jo Swindells 15h 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 16h Imran Mir 16h 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 2d Dr Mandy Crawford-Lee 2d 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 3d Daniel Waterhouse 3d 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 4d John Laramy 4d 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 4d Jenna Julius 4d 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 5d Kathryn O’Neill 5d 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 5d Praful Nargund 5d 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 6d Martin Twist 6d 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 6d Jonathan Brash 6d 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 Teaching How we’re using Brown’s empathy strategies to improve teaching As Ofsted sharpens its focus on inclusion, a strategy rooted in US academic Brené Brown’s work shows empathy can… Jessica Hill 1w Clair Priest 1w 1 2 3 4 5 6 261 Older
