Opinion

The DfE must realise the arts are key to the future of engineering

Many of the skills and behaviours in creative digital qualifications are transferrable to the STEM sector, writes Ann Marie…

Jess Staufenberg
Ann Marie Spry
Opinion

Let’s not undermine a much-needed and loved institution

The triple whammy facing the much-loved Northern College can be avoided, writes Sue Pember, a former DfE director who…

Billy Camden
SUE PEMBER
Opinion

FE colleges need to seek advice from environmental sustainability experts

Teaching sustainability will increase student employment prospects – but we’re still not doing it properly, writes Dora Martínez Carbonell…

Jess Staufenberg
Dora Martínez Carbonell
Opinion

Here are 3 lessons Covid taught us about learners with autism

Transition from school to college in particular needs to be improved for students with autism, writes Jeannie Christina Many…

Jess Staufenberg
Jeannie Christina
Opinion

The DfE should follow up some recommendations in the Commission on Race

The Commission on Race has many shortcomings but there are interesting suggestions in the section on education and training,…

Jess Staufenberg
Jeff Greenidge and David Hughes
News, Opinion

AAC 2021 | An opportunity to look to recovery and the future of apprenticeships

At the FE Week Annual Apprenticeship Conference (AAC) in 2020 we all gathered in Birmingham knowing that it was…

Shane Mann
KIRSTIE DONNELLY


Opinion, Uncategorized

If your college isn’t in a careers hub, here’s the evidence it should be

Colleges already do well with employer links, but new research shows they have a better chance with the hub…

Jess Staufenberg
Oli de Botton
Opinion

Whitehall is failing as a moral leader on apprenticeship targets

Whitehall chiefs, headteachers and local government leaders should have their performance and pay incentives linked to hitting the apprenticeship…

Jess Staufenberg
Tom Bewick
Opinion

The Commission on Race is a spectacularly badly-timed distraction

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities seeks to lay responsibility for painful lived experience at the door of…

Jess Staufenberg
Anjali Shah
Skills reform

For its ‘national recruitment campaign’ the DfE should look to the Armed Forces

Recruitment of service leavers with the skills to rise through the ranks in FE makes sense, writes Campbell Christie…

Jess Staufenberg
Campbell Christie
Opinion

We must tackle the worrying trend in digital skills and qualifications

Our latest report reinforces findings that the digital skills gap is gendered and has regional biases, writes Emma Roberts…

Jess Staufenberg
Emma Roberts
Opinion

Why are numeracy skills in adults still so low?

Despite interventions and investment, maths ‘phobia’ continues to hold learners back, writes Dipa Ganguli Are you a parent, or…

Jess Staufenberg
Dipa Ganguli