The Staffroom - opinion

Year in construction is teaching me how we can build up women

My course is a pause after burning out at medical school and it’s shown me that feelings of belonging...

Jessica Hill
Ropsana Khanom
Teaching

Teacher training reform is being built with genuine collaboration

The FE initial teacher education reforms are proving a rare thing in education policy: change shaped with the sector,...

Jessica Hill
Dr Dan Williams
Teaching

As we enter age of agentic AI everyone becomes a manager 

The next phase of AI shifts human value away from execution and towards judgment, goal clarity and oversight –...

Jessica Hill
Michael Webb
Colleges

FE needs senior women to share their real stories

In FE, women don’t lack ambition or ability but honest stories about what senior leadership really looks like

Jessica Hill
Dr Rebecca Gater and Joanna Stokes
Politics

The FE sector has an ethics problem; it needs accountability, not NDAs

Too much in further education is hidden behind legal letters and non-disclosure agreements. If ethical leadership means anything, it...

Jessica Hill
Tom Bewick
Apprenticeships, Awarding

Nostalgia is not a strategy to navigate assessment evolution

Mark Carney’s catchphrase applies as much to apprenticeships as Western powers in the Trump era – we must move...

Shane Chowen
Steve Smith
Apprenticeships

Stop relying on day release to achieve apprenticeship growth

Structured block release of learners creates momentum, cohesion and results that day release can’t match

Jessica Hill
John Evans OBE
Young people

We need a 14-24 participation strategy to tackle NEET crisis

With no post-16 attendance tracking or coherent transition support, early warning signs are missed and disengagement becomes a NEET...

Jessica Hill
Claire Green
Teaching

AI training is of limited use if staff can’t safely use the tech

The government’s short courses may spread awareness, but without deep, work-based learning workers risk being fluent in tools but...

Jessica Hill
Jo Bishenden