EDI

Diversity in FE Week: A look at how we’ve done

Twelve months after our first look at diversity and visibility within our newspaper pages, FE Week editor Shane Chowen…

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Opinion

How the Truss government could boost skills – without committing any new money

Funding and contracting rules are too bloated and bureaucratic for a start, writes Jane Hickie The new Truss government…

Jess Staufenberg
Jane Hickie
Opinion

Dear Kit: Colleges are not respected enough in Whitehall

A manifestation of the lack of trust is that colleges are one of the most regulated parts of the…

Jess Staufenberg
David Hughes
Devolution

Further education is at the heart of the East Midlands devolution deal

The new deal means working closely with education providers to create new career pathways, writes Ben Bradley On the…

Jess Staufenberg
Ben Bradley
EDI, The Staffroom – opinion

Do you know how to support a student with a recent autism diagnosis?

As a member of staff with Asperger’s Syndrome, I have first-hand experience of the kind of support that can…

Jess Staufenberg
Harry Empsall
Adult education, Politics

Adult literacy must be top of the new PM’s despatch box

Changes in government policy and funding in the last decade have reversed previous positive trends, writes Robert Glick We…

Jess Staufenberg
Robert Glick


Skills reform

The funding consultation doesn’t tackle our biggest challenges – but there’s hope

FE desperately needs simplified funding lines but this consultation must go further, writes Marguerite Hogg It didn’t seem like…

Jess Staufenberg
Marguerite Hogg
Ofqual

The future is digital – but not exclusively so

Technology will help us improve assessment for certain courses and groups of pupils, writes Jo Saxton, but we won’t…

Jess Staufenberg
Jo Saxton
Assessment

A one-size-fits-all approach to assessment undermines equity and diversity

We need assessment settings and systems that give students what they need based on a careful and methodical attention…

Jess Staufenberg
Jeff Greenidge
Opinion

Tony Blair is out of touch – does Labour still not ‘get’ skills?

Dame Ann Limb has her say on the former prime minister’s call to scrap GCSEs and A-levels

FE Week Reporter
Dame Ann Limb
Opinion

So it’s GCSE results day – but where are BTEC results?

As thousands of students celebrate results today, another cohort feel forgotten – and not for the first time, writes…

Jess Staufenberg
Alice Barnard
Opinion

We are working with a fraction of the prisoners we could be

The next prime minister must take radical action on prison education as evidence shows education providers face multiple barriers,…

Jess Staufenberg
Peter Brammall