Opinion

Toni Pearce: Challenges and chances for learners in 2012

In honour of the new strapline for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, FE Week asked two further...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Why every college Principal should join the Twittersphere

There are now over 100 million active Twitter users – but is your college principal one of them? If...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Flexible learning delivery

In my previous life as a college tutor, January was always the month of the annual student awards evening....

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Shady examiners and suspicious seminars are nothing new

The conduct of exam boards and freelance examiners has been subject to much scrutiny following the Daily Telegraph’s recent...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
Opinion

Employer ownership of skills: a Christmas rant

Employers are to be given £250 million of colleges’ funding. Shocking. But hang on: what funding is it that...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The latest plans for FE

With the Chancellor’s Autumn Financial Statement now out of the way, budgets are being set for different parts of...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Stop bashing schools

This conference season has felt particularly ‘anti-school’. Don’t get me wrong, there’s always been an element of schools bashing,...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Continuing Professional Development that works

You may think that continuing professional development (CPD) is the bane of many teachers’ lives, and you may even...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Who knows where the secrets are buried?

History. Everyone and everywhere has one. We all do. We like telling stories. In fact we define our lives...

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter