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
Opinion

Reflections on a Trailblazer journey

The number of Trailblazer apprenticeship standards is growing as the 2017/18 cut-off date for the current frameworks system approaches….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

There is no place for hate preaching in FE

Former Skills Minister and current holder of the security brief John Hayes reflects on why the sector needs to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

‘Far too early to tell if higher education in FE complaints will rise’

September 1, 2015, has gone down in FE as the date from which complaints about the sector’s higher education…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The Indy Scene

 The summer holidays over, a new contract year starting, let’s silence the press criticism of apprenticeships by producing outstanding…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Redefining FE’s mission across age ranges and historical sector divides

Gerry McDonald outlines the reasons and  process behind his college’s application to open a free school and considers why…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter