Opinion Building a skilled construction workforce between the gaps While the building trade is a big employer of apprentices, the wider construction industry suffers skills gaps elsewhere. But… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Lessons from experience in delivering education for imprisoned young learners With the government having announced plans for secure colleges for young offenders, Paul Phillips uses his experience of delivering… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Taking a leaf out of Bridgwater’s nuclear skills delivery book With Skills Minister Matthew Hancock having announced plans for a nuclear college, Mike Robbins looks at whether he should… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Toughness vs training — the tools of the teaching trade Former House of Commons Education Select Committee specialist Ben Nicholls is head of policy and communications at London’s Newham… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Skills shortage presents urgent opportunities for FE sector The Employer Skills Survey has thrown up some interesting statistics about the state of the UK economy and its… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Keeping the pressure on homophobia in a time of funding constraints Pressure group Stonewall’s annual list of the top 100 lesbian, gay and bisexual-friendly employers included just three FE and… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Securing education for young offenders — learning first, detention second The education of young offenders looks set to improve drastically with the government’s announcement of Secure Colleges, where the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion No letting up on England’s poor adult literacy and numeracy Adult literacy and numeracy levels in England came out badly under the scrutiny of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Keeping the apprenticeship wage up to date in the workplace — and online It took the National Apprenticeship Service, and the overarching Skills Funding Agency, three months to act over a 3p… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Rate cut impact report leads to more questions and criticism The Department for Education would have been hoping its impact assessment of the controversial 17.5 per cent funding rate… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Marketing ‘FE’s best-kept secret’ — have we got the seven Ps right on traineeships? Why have traineeships had such a poor take-up, asks Ruth Sparkes. Traineeships were supposed to be ‘the next big… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Working backwards to move forwards on attracting ‘elusive’ 16 to 18 apprentices Providers delivered less 16 to 18 apprenticeship provision last year than they had initially expected. It resulted in a… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Newer 1 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 235 Older
