Opinion, Uncategorized

The Budget should have tackled the deep structural problems with apprenticeships

Until Sunak realises there’s a preference in the apprenticeship system for existing employees over young people, his Budget announcements...

Jess Staufenberg
Andy Norman
Skills reform

Now is FE’s chance to deliver higher technical education

The FE white paper gives colleges the chance to become high-level providers of technical education as in other countries,...

Jess Staufenberg
Ewart Keep
Skills reform

Here are 4 things the FE White Paper missed out

Verdict on the White Paper? Fine start but requires improvement, writes Stephen Evans “We must put employers’ needs for...

Jess Staufenberg
Stephen Evans
Skills reform

Never in 37 years have I seen colleges in the limelight like this White Paper

This White Paper is the first glimpse of where further education could be heading – for the better –...

Jess Staufenberg
Sally Dicketts
Opinion, Uncategorized

We must steady the ship after the government’s half U-turn

After a week at sea like no other, the next big challenge is teacher-assessed grades, writes David Hughes This...

Jess Staufenberg
David Hughes
Opinion, Uncategorized

Thank you to everyone in FE for your extraordinary efforts

Virtual visits during lockdown have revealed many excellent practices to tackle Covid-19 in colleges, writes Gillian Keegan There has...

Jess Staufenberg
Gillian Keegan
Opinion, Uncategorized

We must not confuse competition with choice

For most other European countries, education is deemed too important to leave to market forces, writes David Corke Today...

Jess Staufenberg
David Corke
Opinion, Uncategorized

How can we be in financial intervention yet ineligible for Covid relief?

Being turned down twice for relief funding feels like we are losing out partly because of our hard work,...

JL Dutaut
CHRIS MALISH
News, Uncategorized

MPs from all sides call for an end to six years of real-term FE funding rate cuts

There was cross-party and unanimous condemnation from dozens of MPs over real-terms cuts to FE funding during a Parliamentary...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon