Opinion

Get this bit right and you’ll really start to change lives

Getting into schools, where information, advice and guidance is known to be a problem, can be difficult for colleges….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Casting the Ofsted eye over 16 to 19 work experience

Turning up on time and being presentable are just two of the life lessons a good spell of work…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The inadequate situation of one rule for colleges, another for indies

Colleges rated inadequate by Ofsted are given a chance to improve before their funding is withdrawn and it is…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Refreshing the Education and Training Foundation’s online learning services

Helen Pettifor explains how the Education and Training Foundation hopes to serve the FE and skills sector with an…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Getting ahead vocationally with Teach Too

How do you take industry expertise into the learning environment while retaining that practical, everyday sector knowledge? It’s an…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Protecting the good name of the FE teaching profession

The case of Newham College’s dance and drama head Dr Mark Walcott is a difficult one for the FE…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Opinion

Youth unemployment tops the Budget agenda for FE and skills

A host of policy announcements figured in Chancellor George Osborne’s Autumn Statement. Mick Fletcher looks at those affecting FE….

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Software problems in ‘Lars of the Summer Whine’

Problems with new Skills Funding Agency (SFA) software continue to trouble FE staff as they prepare to attempt submitting…

Nick Linford
Nick Linford
Opinion

Aiming high on ‘real’ work experience

Colleges run their own ‘business’ to allow learners to gain experience and 157 Group executive director Lynne Sedgemore said…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Hitting back at the level two ‘dead-end’ criticism

Claims last month that up to 50,000 teenagers were studying ‘dead-end’ level two courses were ‘superficial and sensational’ says…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

2013: A (Further Education) Policy Odyssey

Former House of Commons Education Select Committee specialist Ben Nicholls is head of policy and communications at London’s Newham…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Commissioner: right man, wrong job?

Failing colleges should of course be the main concern of the new FE Commissioner, but the benefit of his…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter