Opinion

Clear thinking on FE leadership

Ayub Khan looks at what lessons can be learned from a new collection of essays imagining different futures for...

Expert Contributor
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Opinion

A college of technology living up to its name

Anthony Bravo reflects on his college’s moves to improve on its blended learning. Anyone who read my recent expert...

Anthony Bravo
Anthony Bravo
Opinion

Up Pompeii

Shane Chowen looks into the fallout for FE from the Brexit vote. I wanted to start my column this week...

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Opinion

The area review process should be about much more than sustainability

Alun Francis, principal and chief executive of Oldham College, explains what the recently completed Greater Manchester area based review...

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Apprenticeship levy pilot helping employers make the most of their levy funds

Tanja Kuveljic, chief executive of the charity Believe in Young People, discusses one approach to matching young people with the...

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Keep profit out of colleges

What should the government do when a college goes bust? This isn’t a hypothetical scenario, as it happened to...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

AELP Conference: Delay to levy detail will have caused concern

Even last week, we would all have expected that attending the AELP Conference, we would be treated to ministerial...

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Opinion

AELP Conference: So-called outsiders can generate new ideas

John Landeryou, who contributed to the ‘New Blood; the thinking and approaches of new leaders in the FE and...

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Academisation choices will be anything but straightforward

FE Week reported last week that around 60 of the country’s 93 SFCs had registered an interest in converting...

Bill Watkin
Bill Watkin