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 2y Tom Bewick 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Victoria Nyoni 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Haroon Bashir 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Karen Johnson 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Mandy Crawford-Lee 2y 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 JL Dutaut 2y Mark Jenkinson 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Hannah Graf and Jake Graf 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Luke Bocock 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Katie Shaw 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Sarah Waite 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Anne Milton 2y 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… JL Dutaut 2y Andy Burnham 2y Newer 1 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 233 Older