Opinion

Don’t leave it more than two years between inspections

Having been handed a disastrous ‘inadequate’ Ofsted grading nearly six years after the last visit resulted in ‘outstanding’ plaudits...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The resistible rise of learner complaints

A legal change later this year will strengthen the rights of general FE college learners taking higher education courses....

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Getting ‘stuck in’ to skills devolution

Chancellor George Osborne and the leaders of the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) signed The Greater Manchester Agreement in...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

A look back with the general election looming

“A week is a long time in politics,” were famous words from Labour Prime Minister of the 1960s and...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Edition 125

The principal of a large and well-established FE college writes about life at the top — the worries, the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Build around a traineeship and apprenticeship ‘core’ for young people

Stewart Segal considers the 16 to 18 education and training landscape in light of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC)...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Putting the college key to success under the MAT

Kevin Hamblin outlines the journey his Ofsted grade two-rated college made in order to take over sponsorship of a...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Dr Sue

Dear Dr Sue (edition 124)

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

Logistics skills council ‘offered solutions to non-existent problems’

Michael Woodgate considers what went wrong for Skills for Logistics (SfL) with the sector skills council having this month...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter