Opinion Here are the moving stories we heard from people who really want to skill up People with caring responsibilities and disabilities must be properly understood if they are to access the lifelong loan entitlement,… Jess Staufenberg 3y Ed Reza Schwitzer and Patrick Thomson 3y Opinion Let’s prioritise skills spending on level 4 to level 7 Suggestions that training spend should be limited to those with the lowest qualifications are misguided, writes Mandy Crawford-Lee In… Jess Staufenberg 3y Mandy Crawford-Lee 3y Opinion FE badly needs empowered students to make its case to government The NUS no longer has the resources to keep flogging the dead horse of FE student advocacy, writes Jim… Jess Staufenberg 3y Jim Dickinson 3y FE Week Podcast The FE Week Podcast: Ofsted in the spotlight Come and inspect the inspectorate with The FE Week Podcast! Education journalist Jess Staufenberg speaks to former inspectors, current… Jess Staufenberg 3y The FE Week Podcast 3y Opinion FE still needs better links from classroom to career Completing a qualification, however successfully, is inadequate preparation for students entering the world of work, writes Fredericka McFarlane We… Jess Staufenberg 3y Fredericka MacFarlane 3y Opinion Here are three ways the government can make LSIPs a success The government must encourage employers to invest, not just benefit from, the skills system, writes David Phoenix We currently… Jess Staufenberg 3y David Phoenix 3y Opinion Ministers must consider boosting minimum apprentice pay The cost of living crisis means the government must act quickly to tackle the barriers to apprenticeship uptake, writes… Jess Staufenberg 3y Suzanne Straw 3y Apprenticeships Why parents are the barrier to apprenticeship uptake The challenge to apprenticeship uptake is the stigma of the route for parents, writes Ben Hansford In the UK,… Jess Staufenberg 3y Ben Hansford 3y Opinion What can we learn from the history of policymaking in FE? A top-down approach has left a confused legacy of abandoned institutions, qualifications and a lack of consistent funding streams,… Jess Staufenberg 3y Bart Shaw 3y Opinion This is what I really said about social mobility Social mobility is complex, as FE providers know. The Telegraph’s headline about my speech was the opposite of the… Jess Staufenberg 3y Katharine Birbalsingh 3y The Staffroom – opinion Shadowing should be embedded in apprenticeship standards Shadowing is highly effective CPD and also helps to build relationships within organisations, writes Priya Patel I’m a former… Jess Staufenberg 3y Priya Patel 3y Colleges Is it time to let go of the failures and ego of incorporation? The colleges sector can only challenge the problems of incorporation if it takes the uncomfortable step of building a… Jess Staufenberg 3y Stuart Rimmer 3y Newer 1 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 233 Older
