The Staffroom - opinion

Time in student services transformed my approach to learners

While the staffroom debates whether this generation of learners are ‘snowflakes’, student service support is coolly preventing an avalanche...

JL Dutaut
David Murray
T Levels

Alumni agree: Losing BTECs will exclude many from success

New life histories research adds the voices of alumni to the chorus of concerns about the scrapping of BTEC,...

JL Dutaut
Susan McGrath and Maia Madhvani
T Levels

Ministers must heed colleges on their move to defund BTECs

T Levels are a rigorous alternative but will not fill the gap left by scrapping BTECs’ tested route from...

JL Dutaut
Sam Parrett
Cybersecurity

Safeguarding our colleges from cyber threats is a matter of education

Investing in education and awareness for staff and students is a key tool in our fight against cyber attacks,...

JL Dutaut
Sharon Archer
edtech

How ChatGPT could reduce and transform teacher workload

James Kieft tests ChatGPT on a range of time-consuming tasks for teachers and assesses its potential to support and...

JL Dutaut
James Kieft
WorldSkills

International benchmarking is vital in raising standards in UK skills

In the absence of PISA rankings the UK skills system needs international benchmarking to drive up standards and keep...

JL Dutaut
Ben Blackledge
14-16

College provision for 14-16 can no longer be overlooked

More must be done to support direct-entry learners in further education settings as the provision offers a critical lifeline...

JL Dutaut
Alan McKenna
Vulnerable learners

Vulnerable adolescents deserve better than a maze of bureaucracy

A new public accounts committee report outlines a costly and decades-long failure to bring services together to support vulnerable...

JL Dutaut
Dame Meg Hillier, MP
Opinion

Reply: The case to cut BTECs and applied generals is misinformed  

The ‘muddled’ case for cutting BTECs shows a lack of understanding of what employers, young people and the economy...

Shane Chowen
Bill Watkin