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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y 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 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Opinion Safeguarding the definition of apprenticeships The debate around apprenticeships over the last few months, which has now prompted a Commons select committee inquiry, was… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Opinion A chance for change at Skills Funding Agency The announcement of the retirement of the head of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and the head of the… FE Week Reporter 14y FE Week Reporter 14y Newer 1 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 Older