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16 October 2026

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You can deliver a pizza. You don’t deliver learning

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

23h | Teaching
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Our AI marking tool is designed to challenge teachers, not replace them

Scott Hayden

23h | Teaching
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My dyslexia diagnosis changed the way I teach

Dr Chand Khan

23h | The Staffroom - opinion
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If lifelong learning is for everyone, it must reach our prisons

Jane Rigbye

23h | Adult education
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England and America have each solved half the apprenticeships puzzle

Bruno V. Manno

23h | Apprenticeships
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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

Ben RowlandBen Pike

7d | Training providers
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A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

7d | Colleges
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Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach

Jamie Hibbert

7d | Teaching

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Burnham: If you want real technical parity, start with VAT

John Thornhill

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Financial independence should be the goal of careers education

Keith Conway

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Universities must be part of the next chapter of skills devolution

Paula Barker

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It’s time to end the academic-technical divide

Bill Jones

2w | Colleges
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Is the LLE really a ‘worklong learning entitlement’?

Clare Chambers

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Clare Chambers
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What’s in your learners’ emotional backpacks?

Clair Priest

2w | The Staffroom - opinion
Clair Priest
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Forget AI cheating. Cognitive offloading is more of a worry

James Wells

2w | Teaching
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AI is moving fast. SME training is stuck in the slow lane

Allan Allison

2w | Apprenticeships
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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

3w | Skills reform
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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

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Burnham put in his placement over work experience

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UCU turns screw on colleges with collective ballot

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Croydon poised to axe in-house adult education service

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The Tory mayor confronting a postcode lottery in opportunity

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You can deliver a pizza. You don’t deliver learning
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My dyslexia diagnosis changed the way I teach
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If lifelong learning is for everyone, it must reach our prisons
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Our AI marking tool is designed to challenge teachers, not replace them
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