Opinion How the sums don’t add up in recruitment of maths staff It can be a struggle to recruit suitable maths staff – and it won’t get any easier as numbers… Expert Contributor 7y DIANE DALBY 7y Opinion Ofsted’s focus on new providers should be an extra, not an instead The Ofsted annual state-of-the-nation report is due for publication next month and I’ve spent much of this week crunching… Pippa Allen-Kinross 7y NICK LINFORD 7y Opinion Why colleges should be wary of university mergers Merging with a peer in further education is now the most sensible option for colleges wanting to cut costs,… Expert Contributor 7y MARTIN VINCENT 7y Opinion Governance structures must evolve for a college to survive Good governance is essential to the effective running of any business, with an ineffective board being the most likely… Expert Contributor 7y STEPHEN HOWLETT 7y 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 7y ANNE MILTON 7y 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 7y NICK LINFORD 7y 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 7y MARK DAWE 7y 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 7y TOM BEWICK 7y 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 7y NICK LINFORD 7y 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 7y SANDRA MCNALLY 7y 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 7y ANDY NORMAN 7y 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 Newer 1 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 247 Older
