Skills reform Long read Local skills improvement plans: What the trailblazer reports look like Spanning over 500 pages in total, the “trailblazer” local skills improvement plans – a key plank of the government’s… Shane Chowen 3y Shane Chowen 3y Climate Change SMEs lack incentive to invest in green skills Not much is in place to encourage smaller construction businesses to go green, write Andrea Laczik and Kat Emms… Jess Staufenberg 3y Andrea Laczik and Kat Emms 3y Devolution Let’s have a new era of skills devolution to local leaders Being given responsibility for the AEB has allowed City Hall to drive an increase in Londoners retraining, writes Jules… Jess Staufenberg 3y Jules Pipe 3y The Staffroom – opinion Focus on vocabulary, and you improve attainment across subjects Staff can prevent ESOL learners from needing to stay an extra year if they get targeted vocabulary interventions early,… Jess Staufenberg 3y Saqib Brook 3y Skills reform The skills bill endgame ushers in a new age of paternalism The skills bill brings to a head over four decades of state-ist beliefs, writes Tom Bewick The skills bill… Jess Staufenberg 3y Tom Bewick 3y Apprenticeships Don’t solely blame ‘the careers system’ for low apprenticeship starts Many of the issues putting young people off apprenticeships are in the control of employers and providers, not careers… Jess Staufenberg 3y Laura-Jane Rawlings 3y SEND Digitising EHCPs does not solve the huge waiting lists for them Students are still desperately waiting for education, health and care plans – and this support should continue into HE… Jess Staufenberg 3y Sam Parrett 3y SEND Specialist SEND colleges go unmentioned in the green paper – that must change The government should mandate local authorities to include specialist colleges in the new inclusion plans, writes Clare Howard Nadhim… Jess Staufenberg 3y Clare Howard 3y The Staffroom – opinion We have more unaccompanied asylum-seeking students, but not enough support Vulnerable refugee learners are being moved around between local authorities, threatening their education, writes Beth Moore At just 16… Jess Staufenberg 3y Beth Moore 3y Opinion Lessons from a newcomer to further education Agreeing on priorities, and working with other sectors on behalf of learners, can drive the sector forward, writes Naomi… Jess Staufenberg 3y Naomi Phillips 3y Opinion Here are 5 ways ministers can improve prison education now Yet another review has found that prison education fails learners at every stage. Action must be taken straight away,… Jess Staufenberg 3y Francesca Cooney 3y Opinion Why doesn’t Eton offer its ‘transformative support’ to all colleges in Dudley, Middlesbrough and Oldham? Eton’s decision to reject a non-selective intake at its new sixth-form colleges says it all, writes Tom Richmond For… Jess Staufenberg 3y Tom Richmond 3y Newer 1 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 239 Older
