SEND

Slowly layering pre-work support for SEND students is vital. I’m autistic myself – I know

Businesses are missing out on talented young people who find preparing for the workplace overwhelming. Shirley Woods-Gallagher suggests how…

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Dr Shirley Woods-Gallagher
The Staffroom – opinion

The Ideas Room shows what meetings could be like. Come try it out

An online platform set up during the pandemic has the power to transform how leaders interact with their teams,…

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Matthew Ruddle
AI

Automation will result in different jobs – not fewer – but we must adapt 

The UK urgently needs a talent pipeline that will keep pace with automation, says Freya Thomas Monk

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Freya Thomas Monk
Student finance

Government should consider bringing back maintenance support

Growing need for our work and evidence of its impact suggest it may be time to re-introduce some form…

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Nicky Morgan and Paul Eeles
recruitment

How FE can turn the recruitment crisis into an opportunity

FE faces the same workforce pressures as the sectors that rely on it for their talent pipelines but it…

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Dean Renphrey
The Staffroom – opinion

How leading from the middle can have national impact

Partnerships with employers have been central to our curriculum development and are leading to impact well beyond out locality,…

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Chris Fairclough


Diversity

ITPs are crucial players in ensuring apprenticeship inclusivity

As apprenticeships grown in popularity, ITPs have a central role in ensuring they deliver the social mobility they were…

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Cheryl Brown
Apprenticeships

The minimum apprenticeship duration requires reform

Having every apprenticeship last at least a year keeps everything nice and neat for policymakers and trailblazers but comes…

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Mark Bremner
Teaching

Observation can prioritise quality improvement – but not the way we’re doing it

Unseen observation offers a better way to monitor and improve quality than our ineffective, inauthentic and demoralising dominant model,…

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Matt O’Leary
EDI

How to ensure EDI is more than a box-ticking exercise   

Building a culture of diversity and inclusion can take you far beyond mere targets and win over the unconvinced,…

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Leah Stone
AI

ChatGPT: FE institutions need a solid policy to manage the AI revolution

AI tools are on the cusp of transforming classrooms and an effective policy is crucial to ensuring institutions aren’t…

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Ruth Sparkes
Ofsted

Abolish Ofsted? We have better things to focus on

Ofsted must do better amid the sector’s perma-crisis but lowering the stakes of inspection is firmly down to colleges…

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Stuart Rimmer