Opinion

Getting the most out of the 2014-20 Growth Programme

Local enterprise partnerships (Leps) outside London were told by central government that they would not be getting Euro skills...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

More changes needed to build on success of traineeships

Stewart Segal looks at the traineeship programme in light of a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) one-year...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

How to help vocational tutors bear the English and maths burden

Making learners who don’t achieve at least grade C in their English and math GCSEs is a requirement not...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Increasing the value of apprenticeships

Selling apprenticeships to young people is one thing, and selling them to parents is another. Kirstie Donnelly considers how...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Dr Sue

Dear Dr Sue (edition 131)

How do you handle your new principal’s demands? Is the managing director refusing to budge? Dr Sue Pember, the...

Sue Pember
Sue Pember
Opinion

Inaugural conference success, but hopes for programme clarity remain

The speakers spoke and the audience listened — they even got to pose questions. So with the curtain having...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Safeguarding and wilful neglect — a colleges brief

Geraldine Swanton explains how Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to extend the law of wilful neglect to education might...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Charting an upward trajectory for apprenticeship success

David Hughes outlines his hopes for a new Apprentice Charter There are many uncertainties surrounding the general election, but...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Funding system plays second fiddle to finances

The Skills Funding Agency clawback saga appears to have ended with around 100 of the 600 providers warned they...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter