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A poundshop approach to qualifications is a false economy

Calls to reform FSQs are not dissimilar to expecting top-of-the-range products from an online cheap shop, says Andrew Otty

Opinion, The Uncivil Servant

The rock ’n’ roll career of MBKB boss Mark Bremner

To some, Mark Bremner is known as the boss who lets staff at his training business take as many holidays as they want. But to others he’s a builder, a failed barrister, tech nerd, record label founder, fantasy fiction writer and a frustrated rock music merchandiser. He was also once made bankrupt. His journey to […]

Profiles, Long read, Training Providers

Want to be attractive as an employer? Be sustainable

Colleges have distinct advantages – and all the incentives in place – to develop their electric vehicle infrastructure

Opinion, Sustainability

New borrowing rules posing cashflow problems for colleges

Rules imposed last year amount to a ‘perfect storm’, FE leaders warn

News, Colleges, Reclassification

Rotheram: the ‘apprentice’ mayor

Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram is donning a hi-vis vest, trowel in hand, and reminiscing to local college students about the hard graft of his first job as a bricklayer and how he’d be incapable of it today. His attempts at bricklaying in front of young learners (and cameras) at the City of […]

News, Profiles, Apprenticeships, Long read

From rebellious pupil to champion of specialist colleges

Clare Howard, chief executive of Natspec, the body representing specialist colleges, is determined to get their voices heard. But she has been having a tough time of it lately. Further education may feel overlooked by the DfE when compared with schools, but specialist colleges sometimes feel like the ultimate Cinderella service of the education world. […]

Profiles, Long read, RAAC, specialist colleges

Nearly 1 in 6 clinical training places to be offered as apprenticeships by 2028

NHS workforce plan commits to triple the number of apprentice nurses and boost medical degree apprenticeships

News, Apprenticeships

DfE opens applications for colleges capital loans

Loans are available for college capital projects originally planning private sector borrowing prior to reclassification

News, Colleges

The cost-of-living crisis is becoming a cost-of-learning crisis

Learners are increasingly
forced to make horrible
choices between cash or the
classroom, says Josh Spears

Opinion, Cost of living