Opinion On the right track: there is much that FE teachers can learn from elite athletes Helen Van Aardt has identified eight things that athletes preparing for competition have in common with teachers An elite… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y HELEN VAN AARDT 6y Opinion Investment and strategy needed to rescue UK from its low skills doldrums A decade of cuts in training and adult education has led to millions of demoralised and underskilled working age… Fraser Whieldon 6y Kirstie Donnelly 6y Opinion Why I’m striking: a list of austerity’s devastating impacts Since 2010 there has been a 16 per cent cut in funding for sixth-form colleges. Here, Andy Stone spells… Billy Camden 6y ANDY STONE 6y Opinion Transforming how funding levels are set for training apprentices The way apprenticeship funding levels are set will be overhauled following complaints from employers. The new chief executive at… Billy Camden 6y JENNIFER COUPLAND 6y Opinion It’s time to take on the subcontracting profiteers Subcontractors account for more than 10 per cent of ESFA funding. They need overseeing properly, says Simon Ashworth It… Expert Contributor 6y SIMON ASHWORTH 6y Opinion The levy: change should be evolutionary – not revolutionary As an employer of apprentices that has made full use of the levy, I have sometimes found it difficult… Expert Contributor 6y SHARON BLYFIELD 6y Opinion How we fought to save our local college – and won When the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea sought to sell off a local college, they reckoned without the… Fraser Whieldon 6y Samantha Batra 6y Opinion Providers and the government need to better manage subcontracting This week the ESFA published 10 subcontracting proposals in a consultation document. The FE sector is encouraged to respond… Fraser Whieldon 6y Peter Mucklow 6y Opinion Let’s celebrate the many apprenticeship successes Jennifer Coupland took over as chief executive of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education last November. She reflects… Fraser Whieldon 6y Jennifer Coupland 6y Opinion Perverse incentives and tangled pathways If the new government is serious about its proposals, it must address the many problems with the levy, plus… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y EMMA HARDY 6y Opinion Changing perceptions, raising aspirations, making improvements The new secretary of state for education introduces National Aprenticeship Week with his vision for how the sector will… Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu 6y GAVIN WILLIAMSON 6y Opinion Who will gain this time from apprenticeship reform? National Apprenticeships Week is now in its thirteenth year; launched in 2007 by the then Labour government as an… Fraser Whieldon 6y Nick Linford 6y Newer 1 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 247 Older
