Skills reform

Never in 37 years have I seen colleges in the limelight like this White Paper

This White Paper is the first glimpse of where further education could be heading – for the better –...

Jess Staufenberg
Sally Dicketts
Opinion

The challenges facing 2021 exam grades are very different to 2020

Ofqual and the Department for Education didn’t want to make this decision around exam grades, and now face a...

Jess Staufenberg
Tom Bewick
Opinion

The government made BTEC students like me feel we didn’t matter

BTEC students have been put on an exams rollercoaster since the start of this term, writes Fatma Shami Just...

Jess Staufenberg
Fatma Shami
Opinion

Ofqual must urgently allow teacher assessed grades for apprentices

All the stops on teacher assessed grades are being pulled out for GCSEs and A-levels, but yet again apprentices...

Jess Staufenberg
Jane Hickie
AEB

AEB procurement at a time of reform – what we now know

The nationally procured adult education budget contracts with the Education and Skills Funding Agency come to an end in...

Nick Linford
NICK LINFORD
Opinion

Here is a 7-point checklist to make sure the impending FE White Paper doesn’t fail

If the long-anticipated White Paper doesn’t recognise the needs of 2021, then it will fail like so many initiatives...

Jess Staufenberg
Mark Dawe and Tim Blackman
Opinion, Uncategorized

We must steady the ship after the government’s half U-turn

After a week at sea like no other, the next big challenge is teacher-assessed grades, writes David Hughes This...

Jess Staufenberg
David Hughes
Opinion

Wishing you a healthy, merry Christmas and better times ahead

Jennifer Coupland reflects on the challenges of 2020 and looks ahead to what the new year will hold for...

Billy Camden
Jennifer Coupland
Opinion

Ministers have once again proven that FE is an afterthought for this government

Mind the gap! Warm words from ministers on skills can’t conceal the gulf between rhetoric and reality, writes Toby...

Billy Camden
Toby Perkins