Opinion

Indy Scene Edition 133

A round 30 days to go and we may know who the next government will be and the damage…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Workplace complexity requires careers guidance and skills provision overview

Anthony Mann looks at the issue of careers advice with the demands of employers for workers with certain skills…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Timely advice on FE for the incoming Government

With notable past experience advising those in the corridors of power on FE, Roger Dawe outlines what he’d be…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Are FE loans here to stay?

Government proposals to extend loans to level two and also include learners from the age of 19 were put…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Is it possible to survive the 24 per cent adult skills cuts?

As if the numbers themselves didn’t paint the picture clearly enough, Association of Colleges (AoC) research today highlighted just…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Telling the Trailblazer tale

New apprenticeship standards are being developed by Trailblazer employers. Hilary Hall outlines how this is proceeding within her sector….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Opinion

Getting the most out of the 2014-20 Growth Programme

Local enterprise partnerships (Leps) outside London were told by central government that they would not be getting Euro skills…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

More changes needed to build on success of traineeships

Stewart Segal looks at the traineeship programme in light of a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) one-year…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

How to help vocational tutors bear the English and maths burden

Making learners who don’t achieve at least grade C in their English and math GCSEs is a requirement not…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Increasing the value of apprenticeships

Selling apprenticeships to young people is one thing, and selling them to parents is another. Kirstie Donnelly considers how…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Inaugural conference success, but hopes for programme clarity remain

The speakers spoke and the audience listened — they even got to pose questions. So with the curtain having…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Safeguarding and wilful neglect — a colleges brief

Geraldine Swanton explains how Prime Minister David Cameron’s plans to extend the law of wilful neglect to education might…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter