Opinion Three cheers for the Institute for Apprenticeships! Maritime Skills Alliance sticks up for the maligned IfA for creating two wholly new port operative apprenticeships in a complex… Expert Contributor 7y IAIN MACKINNON 7y Opinion Colleges Week should be a celebration with three messages for the chancellor Having spent more than seven happy years working for a large college in South East London I have seen… Nick Linford 7y NICK LINFORD 7y Opinion Government needs to improve access to apprenticeships This week the education select committee published a wide-ranging report on the government’s apprenticeship record. It highlighted failings in… Gordon Marsden 7y GORDON MARSDEN 7y Opinion Can UTCs fit in the technical education jigsaw? The government should think again on UTCs, and consider moving admissions to 16, says Gerard Dominguez-Reig Technical education is prone… Expert Contributor 7y GERARD DOMINGUEZ-REIG 7y Opinion The global skills race will be won by the country that can colonise skills systems With the Germans exporting their entire skills model to countries in their global value chain, the UK needs to… Expert Contributor 7y ROB MAY 7y Opinion ‘Colleges have a grander ambition for their students’ Colleges have a unique role to play in the new industrial revolution, ensuring that every citizen is able to thrive,… Expert Contributor 7y DAVID HUGHES 7y Opinion Does the IfA really believe in degree apprenticeship? The IfA’s review of the DTSP will be a key test of whether it really listens to employers (and… Expert Contributor 7y MANDY CRAWFORD-LEE 7y Opinion How will reducing low-skill foreign workers impact FE? The UK has long relied on EU workers. Now employers must improve the training of homegrown staff, says Tom… Expert Contributor 7y TOM RICHMOND 7y Opinion Tory conference 2018: what was said about FE and skills? Brexit is grabbing the headlines. But many debates at the Conservative Party conference concluded that lifelong learning and apprenticeships… Stephen Evans 7y STEPHEN EVANS 7y Opinion Ofsted in dark over 3aaa but also to blame With an initial 2014/15 contract value of £3.1m, 3aaa was a relatively small apprenticeship provider when it received its… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y NICK LINFORD 7y Opinion The chancellor’s levy transfer increase – a ‘package of reforms’, or mere tinkering? Selling the increase in the amount levy-paying employers can transfer to small companies as a “package of reforms” is… Expert Contributor 7y TONY ALLEN 7y Opinion The fallacy of our ‘employer-led’ skills system If employers are to be given the driving seat in workforce development, they have to be given the keys… Expert Contributor 7y TOM BEWICK 7y Newer 1 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 232 Older
