Opinion

Promoting the positive in Functional Skills

Learners like them, teachers like them, employers like them. This is the message we are hearing from the field….

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

International lessons on teaching and training

As the dust settles from National Apprenticeship Week 2012, surely all eyes now are on the next big event…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Where next for 14-19 vocational qualifications?

The Department for Education’s recent cull of more than 3,000 vocational qualifications taught in schools sparked a media response…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

WorldSkills UK – The Skills Show launches

If you were one of the many thousands of visitors to WorldSkills London 2011 last October it will come…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Response to ‘Government publish FE Choices’

If you saw FE Week’s front-page headline “Private providers ahead of FE colleges in government learner satisfaction survey” and…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Apprenticeship advertising: Is it counterproductive?

The Government has committed itself to creating an extra 250,000 Apprenticeships by 2015. This is a challenging target, particularly…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter


Opinion

The government need to sharpen their focus

It’s great as Shadow Skills and FE Minister to celebrate this fourth annual Apprenticeships week. Looking back on Labour’s…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Innovative curriculum helps progression to apprenticeships

The chance to develop vital skills and experience before starting an Apprenticeship can give would be apprentices a real…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Apprenticeships: a little bit of advice

It’s a mess.  Anyone who thinks the current or proposed system for providing information advice and guidance (IAG) to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

Apprenticeships are in need of innovation

The government’s commitment to promoting and funding more Apprenticeships has been welcomed by those who are working hard to…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

The empowering role of apprenticeships

Despite a lot of media coverage of apprenticeships in the last year, not enough has been heard from the…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter
Opinion

How do we incentivise the employers?

The key word is already in Apprenticeships. We need to be doing more to ‘entice’ SMEs and other employers…

FE Week Reporter
FE Week Reporter