Opinion

What to do if the Budget doesn’t go well for you

Late last month, sector leaders handed a 42,5000-signature petition to Number 10 Downing Street calling on the Prime Minister...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Sector ‘inequality’ at play in EFA college bail-out

Nacro, the crime reduction charity took on Southampton’s struggling Totton College after the Education Funding Agency (EFA) paid a...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

‘Resource FE colleges properly to deliver higher level technical skills’

Responding to Lady Alison Wolf’s report — Heading for the precipice: can further and higher education funding policies be...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Apprenticeships — why we need to put pedagogy back into provision

Funding may well be key to getting anywhere near the government’s 3m apprenticeship starts target for the period of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

‘We all have a duty to prevent extremism and Ofsted will check that we are’

The prevention of extremism is a wide-ranging concern that reaches into vocational education and training issue, a Selina Stewart...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

In defence of Functional Skills

Jonathan Wells makes the case for the end of preferential government treatment for GCSEs over Functional Skills Functional Skills...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Delivering apprenticeships — an employer’s view

Mapped out long-term career paths in technical or leadership roles are just some of the propositions facing apprentice at...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Being cheerful about the new government’s commitment to giving more powers to city regions and Leps

Dr Ann Limb presents five reasons to be cheerful about skills, devolution and localism over the next five years....

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Making Trailblazers and future funding a reality

Apprenticeship reforms remain on the agenda and could be even more important as the government seeks to hit its...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter