Maths

Ticket to ride: Further education gets its chance to trial maths mastery

A new EEF-funded trial could be just the ticket to start combatting negative attitudes to maths that are deeply…

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Tim Leunig
Opinion

What I won by taking part in WorldSkills UK competitions

All further education tutors should look at their learners as potential candidates for what is an unparalleled learning journey

JL Dutaut
Lewis Newton
Funding

Pioneering employer partnerships have helped us plug the SEND budget gap

Paul Cook explains how his specialist college has leveraged private sector funding to help plug the funding gap for…

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Paul Cook
Staffroom – Opinion

A more sustained approach to sustainability through CPD

Embedding sustainability into teacher development is key to our success in creating a college-wide culture or ecological stewardship

JL Dutaut
Charlie Simmans
Curriculum

Enabling colleges to deliver the Advanced British Standard

The current proposals are ambitious but largely unachievable within current conditions

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Gemma Simmons-Blench
Apprenticeships

DfE must act to prevent the apprenticeships system from falling APARt

A decision in 2021 has frozen the apprenticeships system in time just as the pace of change accelerates –…

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Riaz Moola


International Women's Day

Flipping Women! Telling a new story about female FE leaders

Women have taken great strides in FE leadership but perceptions still don’t align with reality

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Dr Rebecca Gater
Budget

Budget 2024: Vote-winning apprenticeship reforms go begging

This budget was a missed opportunity to introduce greater flexibility, reduce the burden on small business and liberalise the…

JL Dutaut
Mark Bremner
Ukraine

How to take our support for Ukraine’s learners to the front line

For two years, FE has championed Ukrainian learners in the UK. Now we can help those left at home…

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Tony Lewin
Learners

Five ways to support students to engage in elections

Impending elections make this Voter Registration Week an important opportunity to involve learners in the democratic process, writes Harriet…

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Harriet Andrews
Accountability

Ofsted’s focus on employment blinkers it to the importance of wellbeing

Wellbeing has been systematically deprioritised in favour of employment measures that actually rely on it

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Andrew Otty
Staffroom – Opinion

Managing difficult conversations around LGBT+ issues

Marking the end of LGBT+ history month with a look at three challenging questions students ask and how to…

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Faisal Arif