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 5y Tom Bewick 5y 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 5y Anjali Shah 5y 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 5y Campbell Christie 5y 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 5y Emma Roberts 5y 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 5y Dipa Ganguli 5y Skills reform The DfE has failed to work the industrial strategy into the skills white paper It looks like the Department for Education and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy aren’t talking to… Jess Staufenberg 5y Graham Hasting-Evans 5y Opinion This is why we need an Association of Apprentices Apprentices are often isolated from their peers, and a mentoring and networking service can help reduce drop-out, writes David… Jess Staufenberg 5y David Marsh 5y Opinion Overworked staff need clear guidance around teacher-assessed grades this year Staff don’t need to provide cartloads of evidence for teacher-assessed grades, just enough to form a professional judgment, says… Jess Staufenberg 5y Jill Duffy 5y Opinion The Chancellor did broadly the right thing with the Budget – now to delivery The government will need to be much quicker delivering what it announced in the Budget last week than its… Jess Staufenberg 5y Stephen Evans 5y Opinion This is how I brought Swedish ‘fika’ to FE in England If staff are skipping lunch and only talk about work, they and their principals need to hear about fika,… Jess Staufenberg 5y Victoria Grimberg 5y Opinion Victims of county lines gangs easily go under the radar in colleges Creating a non-judgmental space for victims to discuss gang involvement in county lines would make a big difference, writes… Jess Staufenberg 5y Teresa Carroll 5y Opinion The government’s delay to Covid testing for students with training providers is disgraceful We can ask why Covid testing is delayed for those on work-based learning routes – but there is no… Jess Staufenberg 5y Jane Hickie 5y Newer 1 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 247 Older