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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y FE Week Reporter 8y 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 8y Nick Linford 8y 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 8y Nick Linford 8y Newer 1 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 207 Older