Opinion Manifestos give little hope SEND reform will deliver With the General Election nearly upon us, Natspec’s Clare Howard has been assessing the three main parties’ promises as… Expert Contributor 6y CLARE HOWARD 6y Opinion Perceptions of engineering hold the sector back To highlight the diversity of engineering careers that shape the world around us, the Royal Academy of Engineering recently… JL Dutaut 6y DR RHYS MORGAN 6y Opinion Employers must be at the heart of the vocational education system Over the last few years we’ve seen a lot of experimentation with England’s much maligned vocational education system. If… JL Dutaut 6y TRISTRAM HOOLEY 6y Opinion Colleges need certainty to deliver promise of social mobility Welsh college principal, Mark Jones has a few requests to put to the new prime minister, and some leadership… JL Dutaut 6y MARK JONES 6y Opinion Apprenticeships suffer too many unintended consequences It seems the three main political parties have fallen out of love with apprenticeships, writes Karen Redhead, and the… JL Dutaut 6y KAREN REDHEAD 6y Opinion The skills sector needs to remove its apprenticeship blinkers The skills sector is still stuck on seeing apprenticeships as a NEET policy rather than the industrial strategy policy… JL Dutaut 6y MANDY CRAWFORD-LEE 6y Opinion Edtech reforms that ignore FE’s ‘dual professionalism’ will make things worse Edtech can improve teaching, learning and assessment – and save time (but only if it’s done right), says Vikki… Expert Contributor 6y VIKKI LIOGIER 6y Opinion 50,000 more nurses? 3m apprenticeship target a lesson in how key Conservative manifesto ‘guarantees’ do not add up The Conservative Party manifesto, published yesterday, pledged “50,000 more nurses” as the first of six “guarantees”, signed on page… Billy Camden 6y Nick Linford 6y Opinion My 5 priorities for FE that should go first in the next education secretary’s in-tray Some issues have been hanging over the vocational sector for 40 years, says Ewart Keep. If we truly want… Expert Contributor 6y PROFESSOR EWART KEEP 6y Opinion Politicians are beginning to realise they can’t afford to ignore FE What would you tell the leaders of the major political parties about needed policy changes in further education? Tony… Expert Contributor 6y TONY LEWIN 6y Opinion Ofsted should explain in their reports why they come knocking just before a merger It is extremely rare to hear a college principal openly criticise Ofsted. So rare in fact, I felt it… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y Nick Linford 6y Opinion Only localism can unlock the skills sector’s true potential With manifestos being furiously written and further and adult education in the spotlight, national policymakers could be missing an… JL Dutaut 6y ANNA ROUND 6y Newer 1 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 239 Older
