Apprenticeships

Poorer students miss out on a golden ticket. We can fix that

The middle classes are dominating degree apprenticeships. There’s so much more we can all do to level the playing...

Jessica Hill
Ned Browne
Apprenticeships

My son made me think differently on apprenticeship assessment

Seeing my son’s daunting experience of assessment made me think differently about reform. Rigour matters, but so does common...

Jessica Hill
Mike Blakeley
Apprenticeships

There’s an easy way to stop some small firms shunning apprentices

The government’s apprenticeship growth ambitions sound bold. But without serious engagement from the small and medium-sized employers who create...

Jessica Hill
Alice Gardner
Skills reform

Britain’s clean energy plans are racing ahead, its skills system is miles behind

Billions are being invested in offshore wind, hydrogen and nuclear, but without a national clean energy skills ecosystem the...

Jessica Hill
Members of the National Energy Skills Consortium (NESC)
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships are heading for a cliff edge, and ministers should know where it leads

Tilting levy funding towards younger learners may sound simple, but blunt cuts and cliff-edge defunding would choke off progression,...

Jessica Hill
Ben Rowland
Prison education

It’s madness to cut jail education as signs of improvement emerge

Literacy programmes in prisons were just beginning to bear fruit, so how can reductions imposed by new teaching contracts...

Jessica Hill
Jon Collins
AI

As we embrace ‘efficient’ AI we risk adding more work on top

Without structure and capacity, AI innovation will become another burden on teachers rather than a driver of better learning

Jessica Hill
Claudia Boerescu
The Staffroom - opinion

That Monday morning feeling…and the buzz of a new beginning

Mondays get a bad rap, but the first day of the week is where hope, possibility and the very...

Jessica Hill
David Murray
construction

We’re not thinking big enough on construction training reform

We should consider structural changes, such as the 14-19 model used in Europe, but yet again we’re just tinkering...

Jessica Hill
Graham Hasting-Evans