Opinion

Are higher apprenticeships the new alternative to university?

Karleen Dowden outlines her attempt to persuade school leaders, at the Association of School and College Leaders’ two-day annual...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Government ‘is wrong to cull qualifications simply because of their size’

The government cull of publicly-funded adult qualifications comes under the critical gaze of Martin Tolhurst Readers will doubtless agree...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Putting English and maths ‘front and centre’

Among the areas of Ofsted praise heaped upon North Somerset’s outstanding Weston College earlier this year Foundation English. Dave...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Less adult money signals a moral future

The world of publicly-financed FE is a diminishing one. Andy Gannon makes the case for defending the sector from...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Making employers pay ‘risks’ 16 and 17 apprenticeships

A government consultation on apprenticeship funding reforms is looking at making employers pay towards training. Kirstie Donnelly explores the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

What the budget means for FE beyond the apprenticeship headlines

The extension of the apprenticeship grant for employers may have provided the main source of budget attention for FE,...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Keeping the options open on Functional Skills

The government has already downgraded Functional Skills more than three years before they are fully replaced in the apprenticeship...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Making progress towards an FE UCas system

The Deputy Prime Minister has called for a “UCas-style” admissions system for FE, but Gina Bradbury says that one...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Seeing value in qualifications

Where qualifications are concerned, you should never assume, according to David Hughes. It is all too easy to fall...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter