14-16 College provision for 14-16 can no longer be overlooked More must be done to support direct-entry learners in further education settings as the provision offers a critical lifeline… JL Dutaut 2y Alan McKenna 2y Vulnerable learners Vulnerable adolescents deserve better than a maze of bureaucracy A new public accounts committee report outlines a costly and decades-long failure to bring services together to support vulnerable… JL Dutaut 2y Dame Meg Hillier, MP 2y Governance The four Ps that will ensure your external governance review brings value for money The new mandatory requirement for external governance review represents a substantial investment, writes Melissa Drayson, so it’s important to… JL Dutaut 2y Melissa Drayson 2y Apprenticeships Apprenticeships diversity still lags and now is the time to act National Apprenticeships Week and Race Equality Week happen at the same time – a coincidence that should speak volumes… JL Dutaut 2y Payal Bhavsar 2y Opinion Reply: The case to cut BTECs and applied generals is misinformed The ‘muddled’ case for cutting BTECs shows a lack of understanding of what employers, young people and the economy… Shane Chowen 2y Bill Watkin 2y The Staffroom – opinion The Staffroom: Helping learners develop their writer’s voice Reducing cognitive load and scaffolding learners’ progress allows them to do more than learn discrete skills, says Kerry Scattergood…. JL Dutaut 2y Kerry Scattergood 2y Online learning Online learning: Placing efficiency and quality at the AI revolution’s heart Mark Dawe scopes out the dawning landscape of a sector revolutionised by online and blended learning and sets out… JL Dutaut 2y Mark Dawe 2y Skills reform Keegan should stick to her guns and show BTECs both barrels Gillian Keegan should ignore her nay-sayer predecessors and make the change that will finally deliver world-class technical education JL Dutaut 2y Jon Yates 2y Spring budget Spring budget: Time for politicians to put money where their mouth is It’s time to stop telling us ‘more needs to be done’ and start doing it, writes David Hughes. The… JL Dutaut 2y David Hughes 2y Digital Digital skills: Gaps and shortages mean it’s time to scale up to level up Expanding expertise and resources is necessary to tackle skills shoratges and a lack of diversity in the digital sector,… JL Dutaut 2y Mark Smith 2y social mobility Improving social mobility demands better data on FE outcomes New research shows FE courses lead to better earnings but their social mobility potential is limited by patchy and… JL Dutaut 2y Alun Francis 2y edtech What FE should learn from edtech’s pandemic legacy (and what it shouldn’t) Edtech’s pandemic legacy should not be defined by buyer’s remorse but by the clear need for a longer-term strategy… JL Dutaut 2y James Earl 2y Newer 1 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 233 Older