Apprenticeships

How can ITPs monitor and improve learner engagement?

ITPs can and must better understand their learners’ ambitions and benchmark engagement across employers to drastically improve provision, explains...

JL Dutaut
Brad Tombling
Apprenticeships

The real reasons half of apprentices drop out of their scheme

Oliver Sidwell delves into nine years of programme reviews to find out why apprentices really leave and what can...

JL Dutaut
Oliver Sidwell
The Staffroom - opinion

How to make your digital development programme ‘go faster’

Steven Spence sets out the process by which The Sheffield College arrived at a sustainable and sustained model for...

JL Dutaut
Steven Spence
Apprenticeships

Functional skills are not fit for the purpose of qualifying apprentices

Functional skills are an off-putting part of the apprentice experience and the whole curriculum needs a complete rethink to...

JL Dutaut
Sue Pittock
Apprenticeships

Improving apprenticeship achievement rates starts with showing how much we value them

New research from AELP with City & Guilds makes it clear that the apprenticeships are not perceived as valuable...

JL Dutaut
Jane Hickie
SEND

SEND plan: less big bang and more damp squib for FE

A lack of policies for 16-25 year old students with SEND brings in to question the government’s commitment to...

Shane Chowen
Ruth Perry
skills

The key to bridging the skills gap is staring us in the face

We know colleges are key to bridging skills gaps and the spring budget is an opportunity to put them...

JL Dutaut
Peter Aldous, MP
Apprenticeships

How ITPs can ensure more SMEs benefit from levy transfer

More upheaval is not necessary if ITPs use their unique place and the capacity they've built to leverage more...

JL Dutaut
Jon Graham
Work experience

How mandatory work experience could be a win for colleges

New Social Market Foundation research shows colleges could benefit directly and indirectly from a universal work experience offer, says...

JL Dutaut
Niamh O Regan