Opinion

Editors comment: Honesty is the best policy

Take a moment to empathise with the Central Delivery Service (CDS) advisers at the Skills Funding Agency. As if…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Student views will strengthen college campaign case

The NUS has launched a new #FEunplugged campaign to battle against provider closures through the government’s programme of post-16…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Making the levy work for charities

Anjelica Finnegan looks at what needs to be considered to make the apprenticeship levy work for charities. In April…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The ‘painful’ path from inadequate to good

After a visit from FE Commissioner Dr David Collins in 2014, Weymouth College went from an Ofsted rating of…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Chief inspector should look closer to home for poor performance

Phil Hatton rebuts claims by Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw that the FE sector was “inadequate at best”…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

What’s so special about apprenticeships?

Graham Taylor questions whether apprenticeships are really worth all the funding and special attention being lavished on them by…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Opinion

EDITORIAL: Boles bottles it

Editor’s comment ‘I don’t know, or if I did I wouldn’t tell you’ — it’s quite a statement for…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Hold-ups could lead to better area review outcomes

Chris Thomson reflects on how a longer than expected post-16 area review process is giving time to focus on…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Relaxation of traineeships rules must be carefully managed

The government announced last month that it was relaxing the rules on which providers can run traineeships. Liz Williams…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

A call to collaborate for the future

While area reviews mean colleges will become closer than ever before, Martin Simmons argues that collaboration was always going…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

One girl’s experience of a gender journey in FE

Bullying and harassment is something one-third adult transgender learners go through, according to a group of MPs. Beatrix Groves,…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

New year, new beginnings, new challenges

Months of waiting for the official birth of the Learning and Work Institute came to an end on New…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford