Opinion What to do if your college is running into financial problems Skills minister Anne Milton explains what the government is doing to support colleges in financial difficulty A college… Expert Contributor 6y ANNE MILTON 6y Opinion Quality of apprenticeship policy suffers from ‘insufficient progress’ Two years ago FE Week exposed thousands of apprentices on standards without any approved end-point-assessment organisations. At the time,… Nick Linford 6y NICK LINFORD 6y Opinion Functional skills is more relevant to the workplace than scraping a GCSE It is vital that functional skills count towards the 20 per cent of time required to be learning off… Mark Dawe 6y MARK DAWE 6y Opinion Bonfire of the qualifications – is that what’s next? Take the politics out of funding vocational qualifications and trust in the technical expertise of the bodies that have… Expert Contributor 6y TOM BEWICK 6y Opinion Why is the sector celebrating greater dependence on the public purse? In the past, the government paid 50 per cent of the costs towards the training of apprentices aged 19… Nick Linford 6y NICK LINFORD 6y Opinion What does the budget mean for FE? This was certainly not a budget for FE or education generally. No additional money was given or promised (apart… Expert Contributor 6y SANDRA MCNALLY 6y Opinion Adults are still being trapped in low-paid work The recent technical reforms still do little to help young people stuck in low levels of education or adults… Expert Contributor 6y ANDY NORMAN 6y Opinion Can national colleges overcome their recruitment and funding challenges? Clair Mowbray explains how the first incorporated college to open in 30 years is responding to its funding and… Expert Contributor 7y CLAIR MOWBRAY 7y Opinion The missing middle gap: what’s happening with level 4 and 5? With the DfE taking a renewed interest in intermediate-level provision, FE needs to seize the moment, says Professor Ewart… Expert Contributor 7y EWART KEEP 7y Opinion Where will all the T-level teachers come from? The ambitious plans for T-levels will surely fail unless more well-qualified staff can be attracted to the sector, warns… Expert Contributor 7y SIMON MARTIN 7y Opinion ESFA overhaul of their register of apprenticeship training providers is more urgent than ever It all seemed so sensible when the ESFA first announced at the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference in March… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y NICK LINFORD 7y Opinion Why I ‘Love our colleges’ and always will Monday is the start of Colleges Week! This is a chance to celebrate the role colleges play in the… Anne Milton 7y ANNE MILTON 7y Newer 1 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 232 Older
