Apprenticeships

Industry collaboration and better pay boost apprenticeships

Meeting the needs of employers and trainees can reverse recent decline in apprenticeships

Jessica Hill
Samantha Ainsley
Ofsted

Ofsted’s new inspection framework: progress or more pressure?

The FE sector is bracing itself for big changes in Ofsted’s inspection regime. Should the reforms spell concern or…

Jessica Hill
Richard Moore
Apprenticeships

How we’ll drive apprenticeship growth

Our reforms mean 10,000 more apprentices could complete their apprenticeship journey each year

Jessica Hill
Baroness Jacqui Smith
Colleges

FE is becoming an attractive career move for HE leaders

FE is gaining traction as a career choice for HE professionals ready to make a meaningful difference

Jessica Hill
Paul Aristides and Paul Horgan
college curriculums, financial literacy

Let’s embed financial literacy into the curriculum

The government’s decision to prioritise functional skills over more robust financial education qualifications risks leaving young people unprepared for…

Jessica Hill
Laurence Frewin
Apprenticeships

Functional skills qualifications have never been essential

Good riddance to functional skills qualifications in adult apprenticeships – it’s been putting off learners and employers in their…

Jessica Hill
Ben Rowland


Apprenticeships

Making the case for functional skills in apprenticeships  

Let’s not forget just how vital functional skills are, for tackling inequality as well as boosting growth

Jessica Hill
Heather Akehurst
Apprenticeships

Functional skills for adults are too vital to give up on

Adult literacy and numeracy rates are already woeful, let’s not make them even worse by scrapping functional skills for…

Jessica Hill
Stephen Evans
The Staffroom – opinion

The staffroom: Let’s move beyond compliance with equality impact assessments

Colleges that integrate equality impact assessments into decision making will improve their efficiency and reputation

Jessica Hill
Gail Pringle
Higher technical education

This is the turning point for higher technical education

After years of being overshadowed by traditional academic routes higher technical education is finally gaining momentum

Jessica Hill
Claire Foreman
Curriculum reform

Chaos and contradictions: Francis review response round-up

Francis review officials stand little chance of digesting the mountain of responses their questions have created, or making sense…

Jessica Hill
Andrew Otty
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships serve the public – so devolve them

Whitehall holds too much power and big employers have learned to game the levy

Jessica Hill
Baroness Alison Wolf