Opinion Putting ‘our world class’ FE offer A busy year of FE expansion with the likes of AoC in India and UK China Partners in Education… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Opinion Do colleges train too many hairdressers? Plenty of apprenticeship starts and a high public spend on training would suggest a wealth of hairdressers, but an… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Opinion Defending colleges and their ‘realistic’ workplace offer Traineeships are the latest example of the myth that colleges cannot provide a true-to-life working environment for learners, says… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 Newer 1 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 238 Older
