Opinion

If A-levels need multiple exam boards, why don’t T-levels?

The system that makes A-levels so revered would work just as effectively for the new technical exams, argues Rod...

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ROD BRISTOW
Opinion

The FE commissioner is wrong: We should keep PROCAT open

The first college incorporated in years has been told to merge to survive. This is the wrong decision, according...

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NEIL BATES
Opinion

Here’s how English skills policy needs to change

The CBI believes the government is on the wrong track with its current skills system. Neil Carberry sets out...

FE Week
NEIL CARBERRY
Opinion

It’s time to let FE providers award their own degrees

Only nine colleges currently have the power to award degrees. Stephen Howlett believes this needs to the change for...

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STEPHEN HOWLETT
Opinion

Scrapping employer fees would be a mistake

We revealed this week that the government is considering a U-turn on apprenticeship employer fees. Since May last year,...

Billy Camden
Nick Linford
Opinion

The London skills strategy is a devolution game-changer

Dr Sue Pember hails Sadiq Khan’s bold and far-reaching new skills and adult education plan for the capital The...

Sue Pember
DR SUE PEMBER
Opinion

Five things any good devolved skills plan should contain

Sadiq Khan’s first skills strategy has lots to welcome, writes Stephen Evans, but to make a step change we...

Stephen Evans
STEPHEN EVANS
Opinion

Why we’re pressing ahead with T-levels

There are worries across the FE sector that T-levels are being rushed through, but Anne Milton believes there’s no...

Anne Milton
ANNE MILTON
Opinion

How the IfA assigns apprenticeship funding bands

There’s plenty going on at the Institute for Apprenticeships at the moment, and its boss Sir Gerry Berragan is...

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SIR GERRY BERRAGAN