The Staffroom - opinion

How leading from the middle can have national impact

Partnerships with employers have been central to our curriculum development and are leading to impact well beyond out locality,...

JL Dutaut
Chris Fairclough
Diversity

ITPs are crucial players in ensuring apprenticeship inclusivity

As apprenticeships grown in popularity, ITPs have a central role in ensuring they deliver the social mobility they were...

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Cheryl Brown
Apprenticeships

The minimum apprenticeship duration requires reform

Having every apprenticeship last at least a year keeps everything nice and neat for policymakers and trailblazers but comes...

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Mark Bremner
Teaching

Observation can prioritise quality improvement – but not the way we’re doing it

Unseen observation offers a better way to monitor and improve quality than our ineffective, inauthentic and demoralising dominant model,...

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Matt O'Leary
EDI

How to ensure EDI is more than a box-ticking exercise   

Building a culture of diversity and inclusion can take you far beyond mere targets and win over the unconvinced,...

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Leah Stone
AI

ChatGPT: FE institutions need a solid policy to manage the AI revolution

AI tools are on the cusp of transforming classrooms and an effective policy is crucial to ensuring institutions aren’t...

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Ruth Sparkes
Maths

Maths to 18: A policy in search of a strategy  

Sixth form colleges stand ready to deliver the prime minister’s ‘maths for all’ ambition, says Bill Watkin, but there’s...

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Bill Watkin
Ofsted

Abolish Ofsted? We have better things to focus on

Ofsted must do better amid the sector’s perma-crisis but lowering the stakes of inspection is firmly down to colleges...

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Stuart Rimmer
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships: Employer engagement is key to widening access

London Design and Engineering UTC’ employer engagement provides a model for opening the doors to apprenticeships for all, writes...

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Jeremy Galpin