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 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 12y Nick Linford 12y 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 Newer 1 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 255 Older
