WorldSkills International benchmarking is vital in raising standards in UK skills In the absence of PISA rankings the UK skills system needs international benchmarking to drive up standards and keep… JL Dutaut 3y Ben Blackledge 3y 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 3y Alan McKenna 3y 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 3y Dame Meg Hillier, MP 3y 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 3y Melissa Drayson 3y 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 3y Payal Bhavsar 3y 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 3y Bill Watkin 3y 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 3y Kerry Scattergood 3y Teaching 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 3y Mark Dawe 3y 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 3y Jon Yates 3y Politics 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 3y David Hughes 3y Adult education 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 3y Mark Smith 3y Students 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 3y Alun Francis 3y Newer 1 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 249 Older
