Opinion

Cash-strapped college appointed principal without competition to avoid ‘expensive recruitment process’

The FE Commissioner visited Stratford-Upon Avon College after its financial health was rated as inadequate by the Skills Funding Agency....

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

No easy solution to youth unemployment

Stewart Segal outlines the response of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to the IPPR’s Remember the Young...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Towards a three-way traineeship policy?

Mark Corney looks at how the traineeship programme is developing policy-wise. From this month, traineeships have been open to...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Are providers playing it too safe on work experience?

The importance of work experience in developing skills has been reinforcd by no less than Ofsted and the UK Commission...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

A good time for a bad ‘posh kids’ premium’ decision

One of the first in-post announcements of new Skills Minister Nick Boles, for “extra” funding, emerged today and within...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

So long, and thanks for all the FE

After 18 months at Newham College, and a number of FE Insider columns, Ben Nicholls is departing the world...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Looking deeper into the reshuffle at DfE and BIS

While those in FE and skills wait with bated breath to find out how new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Filling UTC classrooms — why did it go wrong at Hackney?

Hackney University Technical College (UTC) revealed this week low recruitment from September meant it would be closing for good the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

A bottom-up approach to CPD is ‘best’

Imparting knowledge of teaching is not always best done from the “top,” explains Andrea McMahon. After attending his first...

Nick Linford
Nick Linford