Sustainability

COP29: It’s time to embrace education’s vital climate role

The start of the global climate summit is an important reminder to the curriculum review panel and to the...

JL Dutaut
Laurence Frewin
Policy

Jacqui Smith has spelled out a vision for FE we can all get behind

The skills minister's keynote address to the Association of Colleges fills me with enthusiasm for the future of the...

JL Dutaut
Sam Parrett
Staffroom - Opinion

Labour must end the scandal of FE teacher pay

Teachers have absorbed the blows of a decade funding cuts through their pay cheques and it’s hurting them, the...

JL Dutaut
Anonymous
Apprenticeship levy

Labour can do much better than simply tweaking the levy

The government should learn the lessons from decades of levy forerunners to bring about a more fundamental re-modelling of...

JL Dutaut
Graham Hasting-Evans and Jonathan Shaw
level 3

Our three recommendations to the government’s Level 3 review

The review must take students’ needs as its starting point to decide on the right mix of qualifications

JL Dutaut
James Kewin
The Uncivil Servant

Why I won’t give up on our English GCSE resitters

English can be a powerful intervention for students’ mental health as well as their future prosperity. That’s why we...

JL Dutaut
Andrew Otty
level 3

We can’t afford complacency in the fight for BTECs

Defunding these qualifications is ill-informed and the risk is too high for learners, colleges and universities

JL Dutaut
David Phoenix
Accountability

What FE thinks of Ofsted – and how to improve it

A new report reveals the good and bad of college inspection and hopes to shape a nuanced debate about...

JL Dutaut
Andrea Laczik
Obituary

Obituary: Reverend Claudette Athea Douglas

Claudette will be remembered across the sector for her devotion to students and staff, writes Sam Parrett

Shane Chowen
Sam Parrett CBE