Opinion Looking deeper into the reshuffle at DfE and BIS While those in FE and skills wait with bated breath to find out how new Education Secretary Nicky Morgan… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion A bottom-up approach to CPD is ‘best’ Imparting knowledge of teaching is not always best done from the “top,” explains Andrea McMahon. After attending his first… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Filling UTC classrooms — why did it go wrong at Hackney? Hackney University Technical College (UTC) revealed this week low recruitment from September meant it would be closing for good the… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Preparing for a second year of 14 to 16 provision at college Nine colleges are looking to join the ranks of the existing seven that have been allowed by the Department… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion What’s the ‘interest rate’ on FE loans now? When I wrote in FE Week three months ago about the second annual round of FE Loans, the new… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Gazelle ‘front-runner’ for ETF’s £1m learning tech contract The Gazelle Foundation has been awarded a £1m learning technology contract from the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) amid… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Are UTCs another ‘purely political vanity project’ set for the history books? Hackney University Technical College (UTC) is to shut at the end of 2014/15 because of low recruitment numbers — just… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Opinion Looking deeper at the ’earn or learn’ policy debate With the Tories and Labour coming up with strategies to help young people off JobSeekers’ Allowance and into a… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Aiming to beat the ‘post code lottery’ on learning disability The funding system for young people with learning disabilities changed a year ago, leaving “post code lottery” in its… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion Six ‘impacts and benefits’ of Gazelle More than £3.5m of public money was paid out by 23 principals to Gazelle group of colleges, FE Week… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion The principal of a large and well-established FE college writes about life at the top — the worries, the hopes, the people and the issues they have to deal with every day. Time to budget Further education is a funny place to be at the best of times, but this time… FE Week Reporter 11y FE Week Reporter 11y Opinion In defence of criticisms of UCU’s graded lesson observation report Former Ofsted FE and skills inspector Phil Hatton was critical of a report from University of Wolverhampton academic Dr… Nick Linford 11y Nick Linford 11y Newer 1 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 254 Older
