Opinion

What Ofsted found during their pilots of autumn visits

Pilots of Ofsted’s autumn visits suggest that the FE and skills sector is more than rising to the challenges...

Billy Camden
PAUL JOYCE
Opinion

Is Ofsted really ready to inspect all apprenticeships?

Ofsted will need to prove it can handle the higher levels if they are to inspect all apprenticeships, writes...

Fraser Whieldon
Adrian Anderson
Opinion

A university learning experience is very different to what a typical inspector will be familiar with

Ofsted doesn’t ‘get’ higher education, says Greg Walker, and is not the right regulator for degree apprenticeship courses. Inspectors...

Billy Camden
DR GREG WALKER
Opinion

Apprenticeships will become unprofitable if ineligible costs excluded from funding bands

The Institute for Apprenticeship and Technical Education’s new funding band proposals are a step forward, but still need to...

Billy Camden
SIMON ASHWORTH
Opinion

Sending a hundred students home so soon was a reality check

One case of Covid-19 among the staff had an immediate impact on how we could run the college, writes...

JL Dutaut
SAM PARRETT
Opinion

Without a clear plan for virus control, colleges have been left to guess

Lack of a blueprint for keeping colleges safe partly explains why one college even considered ‘alternate weeks’, writes Stuart...

JL Dutaut
STUART RIMMER
Opinion, Uncategorized

How can we be in financial intervention yet ineligible for Covid relief?

Being turned down twice for relief funding feels like we are losing out partly because of our hard work,...

JL Dutaut
CHRIS MALISH
Opinion

Why route reviews are so critical for the future of technical education

The resumption of route reviews is a wonderful opportunity for us to consider together how technical education can play...

Billy Camden
ANA OSBOURNE
Opinion

DEBATE: Should FE colleges lose autonomy to make course choices?

On 17 January 2020, FE Week was first to report that the government was working on new legislation in...

Billy Camden
NICK LINFORD