Skip to content
18 October 2026

Become a member today for unlimited access to FE Week

Enjoy expert journalism on FE and skills with fewer ads and exclusive benefits.
subscribe

Latest opinion

Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

You can deliver a pizza. You don’t deliver learning

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

2d | Teaching
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Our AI marking tool is designed to challenge teachers, not replace them

Scott Hayden

2d | Teaching
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

My dyslexia diagnosis changed the way I teach

Dr Chand Khan

2d | The Staffroom - opinion
Dr Chand Khan
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

If lifelong learning is for everyone, it must reach our prisons

Jane Rigbye

2d | Adult education
Jane Rigbye
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

England and America have each solved half the apprenticeships puzzle

Bruno V. Manno

2d | Apprenticeships
Bruno V. Manno
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

Ben RowlandBen Pike

1w | Training providers
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

1w | Colleges
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach

Jamie Hibbert

1w | Teaching

All opinion

Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Burnham: If you want real technical parity, start with VAT

John Thornhill

1w | Colleges
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Financial independence should be the goal of careers education

Keith Conway

1w | Ofsted
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Universities must be part of the next chapter of skills devolution

Paula Barker

2w | Apprenticeships
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

It’s time to end the academic-technical divide

Bill Jones

2w | Colleges
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Is the LLE really a ‘worklong learning entitlement’?

Clare Chambers

2w | Adult education
Clare Chambers
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

What’s in your learners’ emotional backpacks?

Clair Priest

2w | The Staffroom - opinion
Clair Priest
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Forget AI cheating. Cognitive offloading is more of a worry

James Wells

2w | Teaching
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

AI is moving fast. SME training is stuck in the slow lane

Allan Allison

2w | Apprenticeships
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

3w | Skills reform
Past Early Access

Previously member early access content

New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

3w | Politics

Member only

Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

The Tory mayor confronting a postcode lottery in opportunity

2d | Long read
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

Dale’s mission to ride a zipline of happiness

1w | Colleges
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

Bickering big beasts’ sideshow is Tory skills highlight

1w | Politics
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

The stop-starts pressures on college apprenticeships

3w | Apprenticeships
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

Levy under the lens with Milburn’s NEET review
17 Sep 2026 | Apprenticeships
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

New beginning for Norfolk FE’s local hero
17 Sep 2026 | Colleges
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Long Read

‘SEND more to FE’ policy risks a raft of problems
3 Sep 2026 | Inclusion
Members Exclusive

Member only content

Exclusive

Ofsted report cards: What have nine months taught us?
27 Aug 2026 | Ofsted