Opinion Traineeships should be delivered by ‘high quality and proven’ providers The Ofsted annual report criticised Traineeships for a lack of success with helping young people progress to apprenticeships or… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion Barnfield becoming talk of the sector — for the right reasons Two visits from FE Commissioner Dr David Collins triggered first by financial problems and secondly by an Ofsted inadequate… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion Getting a move-on with ESF Neet programmes Of the first six programmes aimed at provision for young people not in education, employment or training (Neet) funded… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion What next for FE after the Comprehensive Spending Review? The sector might not be about to change quite as drastically, or catastrophically, as had been expected from Chancellor… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion Questions, questions, questions as AoC chief Martin Doel prepares for life of a professor Martin Doel has revealed plans to become the inaugural Further Education Trust for Leadership (Fetl) Professor of FE and… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion The big Lep Euro funding step Within the next couple of weeks, we expect the Skills Funding Agency to finally begin the process of European… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion Climbing out of the abyss Chancellor George Osborne’s Budget last month was widely expected to be disastrous for FE. But while many are still… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion The ‘heartbreaking’ path to raising standards through competition Among the many proud principals watching learners take part in last month’s WorldSkills UK competitions at the Skills Show… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion Sir Michael sees how ‘inequalities in funding impact on what we can do with our learners’ Phil Hatton reviews the Ofsted 2014/15 annual report and pinpoints as key its mention of how funding issues are… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion Should Ofsted help shape programmes as well as inspect them? Sue Pember casts her eye over the Ofsted 2014/15 annual report. Ofsted’s mission statement is ‘raising standards and improving… FE Week Reporter 10y FE Week Reporter 10y Opinion The Principal’s Office — English and maths challenge The national 16 to 18 A*-C pass rates in 14/15 were 35.8 per cent (38.9 per cent) for GCSE… Alix Robertson 10y Alix Robertson 10y Opinion Leading the ILP way on new short inspections Hull Business Training Centre this month became the first FE and skills independent learning provider to undergo Ofsted’s new… Alix Robertson 10y Alix Robertson 10y Newer 1 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 247 Older