Opinion

Let’s make the FE Guild representative

As the FE Guild goes through its early stages of formulation Robin Landman OBE considers an opportunity for the...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Complaints body call for FE students

Students in the FE sector are trailing behind their higher education counterparts when it comes to the handling of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Rise in apprenticeships as HE wanes

With the cost of new tuition fee arrangements seeming to hit the popularity of higher education, EAL’s Ann Watson looks...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Apprenticeships: new year, new agenda

Apprenticeships made the news time and again in 2012 with a host of reviews. Graham Hoyle, from the AELP, explains...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Will ‘guilding’ the LSIS be an improvement or disaster?

Stop tinkering with FE before another doomed organisation is set up (you only have to look back a few...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Why it’s time for a vocational pedagogy

A new report highlights the complex task of the vocational teacher and offers important evidence for why FE needs a...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The real case for chartered colleges

Chartered status must not simply be another quality mark: it should reflect the capacity of an institution to work...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Trust me: shared services can work

It’s early days – and flexibility is essential – but a unique partnership of six FE colleges is determined...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

All we want for students is more choice

The government go-ahead for FE colleges to recruit 14-year-olds from school is to be applauded, says Mike Hopkins The...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter