Skills reform

Always check the engine before you blame the passengers 

The core message contained in a new IfATE report is as predictable as it is tiresome, says Tom Bewick

Shane Chowen
Tom Bewick
Equality and diversity

Tackling racial injustice must start with curriculum and teacher development

Victoria Nyoni explains why the student commission on racial justice is recommending better training for teachers and new thinking…

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Victoria Nyoni
The Staffroom – opinion

Local collaboration puts equality and diversity on a stronger footing

Haroon Bashir explains how working with colleagues across colleges has been crucial to improving equality and diversity provision across…

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Haroon Bashir
Covid-19

Colleges are key to re-engaging Covid’s ‘lost generation’ in education, employment or training

Colleges are the obvious one-stop-shop for re-engaging disenfranchised young people after Covid and bridging the UK’s skills gaps, says…

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Karen Johnson
Degree apprenticeships

We should be celebrating the growth of degree apprenticeships – not denigrating it

To hear FE sector leaders you’d think there were too many degree apprenticeships when. In fact there are too…

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Mandy Crawford-Lee
Sustainability

London shows local FE partnerships are key to driving the green skills agenda  

Mark Jenkinson explains how college-led partnerships in London are better meeting the needs of green industry employers

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Mark Jenkinson


Inclusion

The government’s transgender guidance must finally lead to greater inclusion  

Sector guidance on transgender learners must be the impetus to get beyond toxic discourse and antiquated practices and create…

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Hannah Graf and Jake Graf
Curriculum

Education must adapt to deliver the key employment skills of a changing workplace

A new NFER report suggests it’s time to revisit the national curriculum to embed six employment skills that will…

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Luke Bocock
The Staffroom – opinion

FE can lead us out of the permacrisis if we work together

The sector’s pandemic response revealed that it can do so much more that sustain a not-so-new normal, writes Katie…

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Katie Shaw
Disadvantage gap

FE is bucking the trend on the attainment gap. What could it do with more funding?

The sector is bucking the national trend on closing the attainment gap, says Sarah Waite. Now ministers should buck…

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Sarah Waite
Politics

The government’s muddled messaging over skills risks undermining its whole agenda

Efforts to promote the skills sector will continue to fall flat until the incumbents of Downing Street develop a…

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Anne Milton
Qualifications

Our MBacc will redress policy’s academic bias

Manchester’s new MBacc will offer young people plenty of academic and technical options at 16 – and the ability to switch between the…

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Andy Burnham