Online learning

Ministers’ bias towards face-to-face risks throttling online learning at birth

The DfE’s bootcamp expectation of 85 per cent face-to-face teaching shows a bias towards traditional methods that can only…

JL Dutaut
Mark Dawe
The Staffroom – opinion

The Staffroom: How teaching can stay ahead of the curve on technology

The key to upskilling our teaching workforce to keep pace with rapid changes in classroom and workplace technology is…

JL Dutaut
Amy Hollier
Apprenticeships

Norfolk shows the solutions to national apprenticeship challenges are local

Locally brokered bespoke financial and practical support for SMEs have seen Norfolk buck the trend on youth and level…

JL Dutaut
Katy Dorman
recruitment

We must start playing hardball to meet our staffing challenges

The sector can’t keep selling itself cheap if it wants to fill its staffing vacancies with high-quality talent and…

JL Dutaut
Ian Pryce
The Staffroom – opinion

The Staffroom: Making friends and allies to crack the challenge of work experience

With a nationwide challenge to increase work placement quantity and quality, it’s time for the sector to call in…

JL Dutaut
Dan Phillips
Diversity

The FE sector has a key role to play to support gender equality in the workplace. Here’s how

Kirstie Donnelly sets out the case for going further to support young women into higher-earning careers, and three steps…

JL Dutaut
Kirstie Donnelly


recruitment

Stop relying on more funding. Providers need to solve their own recruitment problems

There are a raft of measures FE providers can take to improve rectruitment that don’t rely on extra funding…

JL Dutaut
Alex Lockey
Apprenticeships

Our skills system is a long way from meeting the economy’s needs

The levy and other reforms have failed to deliver an apprenticeships system that works for those who need it…

JL Dutaut
Graham Hasting-Evans
Politics

This budget delivers for FE learners and the sector

FE faces a financial struggle but government is committed to supporting the sector as we build a skills and…

Shane Chowen
Robert Halfon MP
Spring budget

Budget 2023: A competent affair but with glaring missed opportunities

John Cope distils yesterday’s announcements to find a budget lacking in expansive vision and visible expenditure, but with encouraging…

JL Dutaut
John Cope
Apprenticeships

AAC 2023: We’re at a pivotal moment to reshape apprenticeships

The Annual Apprenticeship Conference 2023 might be over, but from functional skills to social mobility, there’s a lot to…

Shane Chowen
Kirstie Donnelly
The Staffroom – opinion

How to make your digital development programme ‘go faster’

Steven Spence sets out the process by which The Sheffield College arrived at a sustainable and sustained model for…

JL Dutaut
Steven Spence