Opinion

Could Cable’s ‘elite’ colleges lead in the wrong direction?

Business Secretary Vince Cable’s Cambridge Public Policy Lecture on the future of further and higher education last month brought…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Understanding the law behind the learner experience

The 157 Group and law firm SGH Martineau have teamed up to produce a guide for college on the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Dr Cable’s ‘thoughtful contribution’ to the

Business Secretary Vince Cable delivered a speech last month at Cambridge University entitled Where next for Further and Higher…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Prison teachers ‘must get the support and resources to help learners’

Prison learning practitioners attended a conference organised by the Prisoner Learning Alliance (PLA) last month. Alexandra Marks outlines the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Colleges: so much more than classrooms

One of last month’s interesting discussions was with colleagues from the Association of Colleges (AoC) and our own sports…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Taking a loan stance

With official figures having revealed that qualifications from the Council for Awards in Care, Health and Education (Cache) featured…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Opinion

Teachers’ and trainers’ experiences of the 16 to 19 study programmes

The Institute for Learning has been looking at how teachers have been getting on with the requirements of the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Commercialism and creativity ‘are key’ in post-cuts market

Where can colleges and independent learning providers look as government funding cuts bite, asks David Hughes. It says something…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Coming to terms with FE loans

With the FE loans having launched a year ago, Mike Cooper looks at how the system is bedding in…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The principal of a large and well-established FE college writes about life at the top — the worries, the hopes, the people and the issues they have to deal with every day.

What an interesting few weeks it has been since the funding agencies released details about priorities for next year…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The Great FE and Skills Survey 2014

It is perhaps not surprising that when FE Week and the Policy Consortium invited staff across the sector to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Embracing Ofsted as a ‘fresh pair of eyes’

Ofsted and data can both hold fear for principals, but Chris Thomson says embracing both can provide a path…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter