Opinion

The ESFA should hire risk managers to root out problems in training providers

Making providers get insurance will solve neither incompetence nor fraud, writes John Hyde “Taking a sledgehammer to crack a…

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John Hyde
Opinion

Colleges have a huge impact on the pipeline of talent towards ‘blue technologies’

Some of the most innovative marine technology businesses in the world call the UK home, writes Cerian Ayres This…

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Cerian Ayres
Opinion

Many teachers are unaware of assistive technology for disabled students

Staff lack proper training, and information about assistive technology is hard to navigate, writes Geena Vabulas In an age…

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Geena Vabulas
Opinion

The need to put young people with SEND at the heart of recovery couldn’t be clearer

The FE sector has worked really hard to support learners with additional needs, but Covid has been so damaging,…

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Paul Joyce
Opinion

UTCs could survive by extending year groups beyond age 18

Many struggling UTCs are lowering their age of entry, but they could have more impact by going the other…

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David Phoenix
Apprenticeships

Talking about a ‘middle-class’ grab on apprenticeships could send the wrong message

The claim suggests a scarcity of apprenticeships and that only working-class people should do them, writes David Gallagher Gillian…

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David Gallagher


Opinion

The Church of England wants to serve a new generation as we have always done

The Church of England isn’t trying to infiltrate FE colleges in some secret plan, as suggested by two secularists,…

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Nigel Genders
Opinion

Here’s what you need to know about staff with ‘gender critical’ views

A landmark judgment has ruled that it is lawful to hold a belief that may offend or shock others,…

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Jane Hallas
Opinion

This is why a ‘digital Baker clause’ is needed

Students will expect to access all the information about their future options in one place online, writes Katie Bell…

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Katie Bell
Opinion

The DfE is focused on learning but a tsunami of need is upon us

At the Westminster Insight SEND conference, Sonia Blandford says the government is ignoring a worrying rise in SEND and…

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Professor Sonia Blandford
Opinion

The U-turn on randomised control trials is bad news for FE

Randomised control trials are the answer to FE’s biggest questions, writes Ben Gadsby I have a confession: My name…

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Ben Gadsby
Opinion

The Church of England offensive in FE colleges must be resisted

The Church’s proposals have little to do with education and more to do with reversing its declining numbers among…

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Professor Chris Higgins and Keith Sharpe