Opinion Colleges ‘deeply concerned’ about £650m non-levy tender The Education and Skills Funding Agency was accused of plunging the relaunched non-levy apprenticeship funding tender process into chaos… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Opinion AEB procurement fears for third sector providers Third Sector National Learning Alliance chief executive Tim Ward, wrote the following open letter to outgoing Institute for Apprenticeships and Education… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Opinion GCSE results week: How FE can leverage digital channels to win learners Colleges and providers need to get smarter in attracting new learners who’ve just had their GCSE results – here’s… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Opinion Explaining new GCSE grades and what this means for post-16 resits By this time on results day, we’re all now aware of the new style of numerical GCSE grading. But… Gemma Gathercole 8y Gemma Gathercole 8y Opinion There is no such thing as equality in funding or inspection The strange case of Learndirect’s long-awaited ‘inadequate’ grade shows that providers in this country are not created equal, argues… Phil Hatton 8y Phil Hatton 8y Opinion How government can widen participation through FE To boost participation of under-represented groups in higher education, further education colleges should play a greater role, argue Profs… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Opinion The employer knows better than the ‘man from the ministry’ The levy was supposed put employers in control – don’t shunt them into the back seat just because you… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Opinion Frontier Economics is right: the T-level tender approach is not viable Important new research carried out for the DfE demonstrates that a single awarding body for T-levels would have disastrous… Gemma Gathercole 8y Gemma Gathercole 8y Opinion Why doesn’t FE Week have more diverse representation? Apparently, 55% of senior leaders in FE are women. I don’t believe it. A large part of my job… Catherine Murray 8y Catherine Murray 8y Opinion To boost social mobility, we need more degree apprenticeships If we really want to develop our economy, we should focus more on the top echelons, suggests Adrian Anderson… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Opinion How World Youth Skills Day can help with social mobility Inequality is a major problem for many 18- to 24-year-olds, but Neil Bentley believes WorldSkills UK can play a… Neil Bentley-Gockmann 8y Neil Bentley-Gockmann 8y Opinion Prison education and training needs fixing – here’s how Prison education has been sidelined for too long and major change is needed now, says Rob Mills The general… Expert Contributor 8y Expert Contributor 8y Newer 1 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 247 Older