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
Jenna Julius
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
Kathryn O’Neill
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
Praful Nargund
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
Martin Twist
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
Jonathan Brash
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
Vicky Mose


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
Clair Priest
Careers

A patchwork system of support cannot solve the NEET crisis

A national framework for NEET support could finally bring much-needed clarity and coordination to the system

Jessica Hill
Dan Sandhu
Skills reform

The cracks are in the delivery system, not the qualifications

If ministers want to stop young people ‘falling through the cracks’, they must confront the real problem: a school…

Jessica Hill
Andy Forbes
Opinion

In a saturated jobs market qualifications aren’t enough

When more than 700,000 graduates are unemployed, we must ensure students get work experience and can articulate the employability…

Jessica Hill
Tom Yates
Teaching

Call the Doctor… our tutorials are being treated like a TARDIS

More demands are being made of tutorial time – to the point that college teams are being asked to…

Jessica Hill
Mark Dawe
Young people

Diplomas get a reprieve, and learners avoid the gap

The government’s decision to pause the defunding of diplomas and extended diplomas is a major victory for common sense

Jessica Hill
James Kewin