Opinion Cash-strapped college appointed principal without competition to avoid ‘expensive recruitment process’ The FE Commissioner visited Stratford-Upon Avon College after its financial health was rated as inadequate by the Skills Funding Agency…. Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Opinion Towards a three-way traineeship policy? Mark Corney looks at how the traineeship programme is developing policy-wise. From this month, traineeships have been open to… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Opinion No easy solution to youth unemployment Stewart Segal outlines the response of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers to the IPPR’s Remember the Young… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Opinion Are providers playing it too safe on work experience? The importance of work experience in developing skills has been reinforcd by no less than Ofsted and the UK Commission… FE Week Reporter 12y FE Week Reporter 12y Opinion A good time for a bad ‘posh kids’ premium’ decision One of the first in-post announcements of new Skills Minister Nick Boles, for “extra” funding, emerged today and within… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y Opinion So long, and thanks for all the FE After 18 months at Newham College, and a number of FE Insider columns, Ben Nicholls is departing the world… Nick Linford 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y FE Week Reporter 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y Newer 1 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 261 Older
