supported internships

Colleges are key to closing employment gaps for young people with learning disabilities

Marking National Inclusion Week, the leaders of the Internship Works consortium urge providers to open their doors to supported…

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Julie Pointer and Laura Davis
Funding

Why it’s easier than ever for employers to take on apprentices

Rupert Crossland digests the apprenticehip rule changes for this year and finds an emerging trend

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Rupert Crossland
Funding

If your skills strategy isn’t funding – it’s not worth talking about

However good a national skills strategy looks on paper, it simply can’t be delivered by a system on the…

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Mark Dawe
Community

Why it’s time to recognise the work of colleges as social action leaders

New awards aim to recognise colleges for all the work they do that goes far beyond qualifications and transforms…

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Shelagh Legrave
LSIPs

Employer partnerships are no longer enough to tackle the skills crisis 

LSIPs require us to look beyond competition between education providers to maximise investment and impact, explains Louise Wolsey

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Louise Wolsey
The Staffroom – opinion

How to embed ED&I into your everyday teaching and learning

All learners can benefit from an equality, diversity and inclusion mindset from their teachers, explains Faisal Arif. All it…

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Faisal Arif


Funding

Are private equity backers bad apples or golden eggs?

Anyone tempted by a potentially lucrative private-equity deal should carefully consider the incentives and the potential repercussions, writes Alex…

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Alex Lockey
Policy

Whitehall doesn’t know best – but devolution is harming skills policy

We need to end ‘Whitehall knows best’ while undoing the harms devolution is doing by dividing our efforts, says…

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Tom Bewick
Lifelong Learning

Awarding organisations are perfectly placed to break barriers to LLE 

Mary Curnock Cook reveals key recommendations to overcome hurdles on the way to launching the new lifelong learning entitlement

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Mary Curnock Cook
Opinion

Collective effort can bring college pay back where it needs to be

Even after a hard-fought funding increase, college pay still lags behind schools and industry, writes David Hughes

Shane Chowen
David Hughes
Literacy

FE needed a movement to improve literacy. Now it’s got one

A new collective has set itself the aim of harnessing literacy for social mobility across the curriculum, explains Kirsty…

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Kirsty Haughton
The Staffroom – opinion

Remembering Henrietta. Why every learner should know about a silenced contribution to medical science

After this summer’s development, everyone should learn about the most important contributor to science you’ve never heard of, says…

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Gail Pringle