Skills reform The skills white paper: too much rhetoric, too little action A lack of movement is causing planning blight and eroding the skills landscape, writes Sue Pember In January 2021,… Jess Staufenberg 4y Sue Pember 4y Skills reform The FE white paper has galvanised support for the sector The government still needs a national strategy but there are positive signs, writes David Hughes A year on from… Jess Staufenberg 4y David Hughes 4y Skills reform The skills bill is the blueprint for transforming the country Apprenticeships are extraordinarily popular – and more progress is being made from the skills bill, writes Alex Burghart Skills… Jess Staufenberg 4y Alex Burghart MP 4y The Staffroom – opinion We must dispel the image of a male coder sitting in a dark room all night A career in tech isn’t all about coding – there are multiple other roles for young people too, writes… Jess Staufenberg 4y Sukvinder Kathuria 4y Opinion I wish FE offered a broader range of subjects to study Students should be able to study what interests them, instead of the subjects the system prefers them to pursue,… Jess Staufenberg 4y Aaliyah Kennedy 4y Opinion Why the delay to mental health teams reaching all colleges? Colleges are reporting more suicides and eating disorders – they need better support now, writes Richard Caulfield Over a… Jess Staufenberg 4y Richard Caulfield 4y Skills reform Remove the universal credit rules blocking people from education ‘Conditionality’ rules are forcing people to give up their training courses, writes Peter Aldous Like all MPs, I am… Jess Staufenberg 4y Peter Aldous MP 4y Opinion Providers are confused about how to record sex and gender Collecting data on sex and gender separately is important for tackling inequalities, writes Sarah Hope Suppose you’re asked to… Jess Staufenberg 4y Sarah Hope 4y Opinion 7 steps to having ‘guerilla careers hotspots’ around your college Providers should be more creative about inspiring students into the labour market, writes Andrew Bernard Imagine you’re just queuing… Jess Staufenberg 4y Andrew Bernard 4y Opinion The government must pay young people to enter traineeships Traineeships are getting good outcomes but are being crowded out by other subsidised programmes, writes Jane Hickie As we… Jess Staufenberg 4y Jane Hickie 4y Opinion We need huge new initiatives to support new skills and retraining Writing off stranded learners’ debts is a good start, but there’s more to be done on access to adult… Gordon Marsden 4y GORDON MARSDEN 4y Opinion How important is FE to ‘levelling up’? In the 2021 Queen’s Speech, the government stated that it intended to “level up opportunities across all parts of… Billy Camden 4y DAVID RUSSELL 4y Newer 1 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 255 Older
