News, Opinion

AAC 2021 | An opportunity to look to recovery and the future of apprenticeships

At the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC) in 2020 we all gathered in Birmingham knowing that it was...

Shane Mann
KIRSTIE DONNELLY
Opinion, Uncategorized

If your college isn’t in a careers hub, here’s the evidence it should be

Colleges already do well with employer links, but new research shows they have a better chance with the hub...

Jess Staufenberg
Oli de Botton
Opinion

Whitehall is failing as a moral leader on apprenticeship targets

Whitehall chiefs, headteachers and local government leaders should have their performance and pay incentives linked to hitting the apprenticeship...

Jess Staufenberg
Tom Bewick
Opinion

The Commission on Race is a spectacularly badly-timed distraction

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities seeks to lay responsibility for painful lived experience at the door of...

Jess Staufenberg
Anjali Shah
Opinion

We must tackle the worrying trend in digital skills and qualifications

Our latest report reinforces findings that the digital skills gap is gendered and has regional biases, writes Emma Roberts...

Jess Staufenberg
Emma Roberts
Opinion

Why are numeracy skills in adults still so low?

Despite interventions and investment, maths ‘phobia’ continues to hold learners back, writes Dipa Ganguli Are you a parent, or...

Jess Staufenberg
Dipa Ganguli
Skills reform

For its ‘national recruitment campaign’ the DfE should look to the Armed Forces

Recruitment of service leavers with the skills to rise through the ranks in FE makes sense, writes Campbell Christie...

Jess Staufenberg
Campbell Christie
Skills reform

The DfE has failed to work the industrial strategy into the skills white paper

It looks like the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy aren’t talking to...

Jess Staufenberg
Graham Hasting-Evans
Opinion

This is why we need an Association of Apprentices

Apprentices are often isolated from their peers, and a mentoring and networking service can help reduce drop-out, writes David...

Jess Staufenberg
David Marsh