Opinion The impossibility of remaining silent in the face of injustice Further education increases justice through its combined economic, social and moral purpose and, says Toni Fazaeli, to do this… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y News, Opinion Hancock, Whitehead and the £40bn employer spend claim Is the claim, most recently made in the Whitehead Review, that employers in England spend £40bn on training true,… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion The rise of the amateur — a primary tale Former House of Commons Education Select Committee specialist Ben Nicholls is head of policy and communications at London’s Newham College…. Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion FE needs better support to help post-16s pass maths and English The government, schools, trade unions, parents and carers all need to work together in a new drive to improve… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Learners are going to need techno-maths skills to cope in the modern workplace Steve McCormack concedes teachers haven’t always succeeded in demonstrating how maths skills will be relevant to students after they… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion If employers are from Mars and young people are from Venus… better literacy can bring them into same orbit Young people need to learn from employers why they need better literacy skills to thrive in the workplace, says… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Government must not ‘tie hands’ of college staff who want to help struggling 49pc The FE sector wants to play a key role in improving literacy and numeracy levels, but it could be… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Functional skills can deliver what employers need Parity should be maintained between how GCSEs and functional skills are valued by the government, says Stella Turner With… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Self-improvement in an age of reduced resources Self-improvement, not improvement, is the order of the day for new FE body the Education and Training Foundation it… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Ofsted director Coffey wins praise for prison talk Prison education and training came under the spotlight last week in a critical speech by Ofsted’s FE and skills… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Opinion Escaping the prison education past Prisons came under fire in a speech by Ofsted’s FE and skills director Matthew Coffey, who pointed out how… FE Week 12y FE Week 12y Opinion What happens when the money runs out? With allegations of shoddy practice, revelations of low pay and little training for apprentices, along with concerns about limited… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Newer 1 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 232 Older