Opinion

Degree apprenticeships – not just because they are ‘free’

With the apprenticeships title having undergone a government consultation aimed at protecting the brand, David Allison looks at what…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Sector viewing FE mission as increasingly impossible

Further education’s struggle for survival may not be quite on a par with Tom Cruise battling the Syndicate —…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The principal’s office

There’s understandable angst in FE colleges about the area reviews. It’s an issue that’s been playing on my mind…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Meet the new framework, not quite the same as the old framework

Gemma Gathercole outlines her views on the new qualifications framework coming into force next month. Anyone that works in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Outline of a helping hand to help prevent terrorism take root in the FE environment

An Association of Teachers and Lecturers survey last week showed how many FE professionals felt unprepared for their new…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Follow key priorities to make FE loans system work

Latest figures show little progress with take-up of 24+ advanced learning loans. Stephen Evans looks at how the system…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Dr Sue, Opinion

Dr Sue (Edition 147)

How do you handle your new principal’s demands? Is the managing director refusing to budge? Dr Sue Pember, the…

Sue Pember
Sue Pember
Opinion

Damned if you report, damned if you don’t….Prevent

Mary Bousted outlines her concerns that the Prevent Duty could be causing more harm than good. New issues in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Area reviews must engage with independent learning providers

Stewart Segal explains the important role that he thinks independent learning providers (ILPs) should play in upcoming post-16 education…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Provider involvement in prison learning review ‘essential’

Justice Secretary Michael Gove’s wide-ranging review of prison learning is set to include the system of provider contracting. Alexandra…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Shining an area review light on sub-contracting

When the Department for Business Innovation and Skills published its annual funding letter in February, it outlined concerns with…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Incorporating lessons from taking an FE college path

In August last year Basildon-based Prospects Learning Foundation (PLF) underwent incorporation to become Prospects College of Advanced Technology —the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter