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How to build a collaborative college culture

Good leadership is all about relationships and taking people with you, says Steve Frampton, President of Portsmouth College for...

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STEVE FRAMPTON
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Apprenticeship funding bands needed reviewing to be fair

A new approach to funding apprenticeships will provide better value for money so that people can benefit from the...

Anne Milton
ANNE MILTON
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The funding band reviews are a good model for the future

Following the success of the funding band reviews, the Institute for Apprenticeships will use the same collaborative approach to...

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SIR GERRY BERRAGAN
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We need three post-16 pathways: A-levels, T-levels and applied generals

Two post-16 education pathways are not enough: we need an academic route, an occupational route and a career route, argues...

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ROD BRISTOW
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Ensuring young people have the ‘best possible’ careers advice

As the Department for Education announces plans to take action against schools that aren’t complying with the ‘Baker clause’,...

Anne Milton
ANNE MILTON
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The ‘transformational bridge’ of continued adult education

Everyone, from business people to politicians agree that infrastructure makes a huge difference to economic performance. Digital, transport links...

Jude Burke
CINDY RAMPERSAUD
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We must tell the chancellor FE needs more, not less funding

Further education is being asked to find more cuts, despite already being under-funded. Let’s fight back by insisting on fair...

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JAMES KEWIN
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New quality assurance rules will create a tiered apprenticeship system

The latest announcements on quality assurance of end-point assessments are a game-changer for assessment organisations – some standards will...

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TERRY FENNELL
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Post-16 segregation threatens ‘parity of esteem’ for technical education

Post-16 pathways are increasingly segregated, which risks damaging the government’s ambitions for technical education to be treated with parity...

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DAVID ROBINSON