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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

1d | Skills reform
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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

1d | Politics
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Low-attendance college students aren’t ‘hidden NEETs’

Eddie Playfair

1d | Students
Eddie Playfair
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English resits are treating the symptom, not the cause

Tony Davis

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Tony Davis
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We’re losing the Saturday job and gaining a bigger problem

Mark Cameron

1d | Skills reform
Mark Cameron

The chancellor must raise apprenticeship funding bands

Robert Halfon

2d | Skills reform

The AI jobs debate is missing the skilled trades

Sharon Hague

2d | Skills reform

Growth sectors need skills. Employer investment’s heading the wrong way

Anna Valero, LSE’s Centre for Economic PerformanceAadya Bahl, LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance

3d | Skills reform

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We want medals, but WorldSkills is about much more

Marion Plant

5d | WorldSkills
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Hidden NEETs need help, not another college blame game

Claire Green

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Ofsted, stop treating young apprentices like school pupils

Kerry Boffey

1w | Ofsted
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Too much CPD in FE is simply performative

Caz Dolby

1w | Teaching
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You can’t understand FE from Whitehall alone

A former civil servant

1w | Politics
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English and maths pass rates only tell half the story

Jordan James

1w | Assessment
Jordan James

We’ll listen to FE so V Levels work for everyone

Jacqui Smith

1w | Skills reform

Like a Great British Bake Off on steroids

Anna Trethewey

1w | WorldSkills
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Our college is building its own AI tools instead of relying on third parties

Chris Loveday

2w | Colleges
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Rural colleges are the missing piece of the industrial strategy

Jason Turton

2w | Colleges

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GCSE barrier blocks access to entry-level apprenticeships

1d | Apprenticeships
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The stop-starts pressures on college apprenticeships

1d | Apprenticeships
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We’re losing the Saturday job and gaining a bigger problem

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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

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English resits are treating the symptom, not the cause
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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs
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Low-attendance college students aren’t ‘hidden NEETs’
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Movers & Shakers: Edition 552
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