Opinion The taxing issue of future funding in a world of cuts With government spending on adult skills set to fall over the coming years, Mark Corney tries to find a… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Making vocational education the ‘envy of the world’ After a year in office, Skills Minister Matthew Hancock provides an update on his four priorities for vocational education…. FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Employers prepare to take wheel of new Career Colleges Career Colleges will set their 14-year-old learners off on the path of a career with the aim of getting… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Keeping apprentice assessment and commercial interests apart How do you judge whether apprentices are truly prepared to qualify, and who decides? Iain Macdonald puts the case… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion ‘Bite-size’ qualifications can bridge gap to full GCSEs Post-16 learners need stepping stone qualifications to build up their confidence and skills before they re-take maths and English… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Opinion Funding proposals put apprenticeship growth at risk Plans to put businesses at the heart of future funding arrangements for apprenticeships risk driving away all but the… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y Newer 1 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 233 Older
