Election 2024
If we’re going to scrutinise Labour’s plans for levy reform, we need to accept the policy’s failures and base…
Stephen Evans
Qualifications
Pioneering a way to gain skills accreditation through volunteering could be transformational for communities and learners – especially the…
Dr Sam Parrett CBE and Phillip Le Feuvre
Apprenticeships
A new report shows those who say such a guarantee can’t be delivered in an employer-led system underestimate appetite…
Lizzie Crowley
Election 2024
We need a unified holistic skills strategy across government to meet current and future challenges
Gordon Marsden
Apprenticeships
UCAS is launching a consultation on its proposal to expand their tariff to apprenticeships. Here’s our rationale
Lindsay Conroy
The Staffroom – opinion
Gail Pringle shares her top tips to ensure student voice activity engages the whole college community and leaves a…
Gail Pringle
Curriculum
Further education is a beacon of human rights education – but knowledge of these must be complemented with the…
Dan Shercliff
Governance
Why your college should consider governance innovation in response to specific circumstances – even if it doesn’t fit your…
Ian Valvona and Melissa Drayson
AI
Instead of taking pro- and anti- stances, we must prepare learners for a world in which AI is the…
Debra Gray and Paul McKean
level 3
Our campaign has all but secured a post-election pause and review of level 3 qualification defunding. Now the opposition…
James Kewin
Research
If we want to fully and finally get past the ‘invisibility’ of research in FE, we must join together…
Kerry Scattergood
The Staffroom – opinion
Teachers’ interests outside the classroom are important nourishment for their wellbeing and a source of inspiration for their learners
David Murray
