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In the first of a series of features exploring the themes raised by the College of the Future Commission, JL Dutaut looks at regionalisation, a Scottish government policy that transformed further education there, and is very much on the commission chair’s mind. It is five years since Scotland’s policy of rationalising its further education sector […]
Feature
Westminster Kingsway College has become the first ever college to win a gong at the Careers and Enterprise Company’s annual awards. The London-based college was announced as the 2019 winner for ‘Most Progress from a School or College’ out of a shortlist of three finalists in a ceremony at The Royal Society of Chemistry in […]
News
Government ought to invest in upskilling people on to level 2 qualifications or apprenticeships as a priority, a new report has recommended. Close the Gap, a wide-ranging report joint authored by awarding bodies NOCN and City & Guilds, says the investment is necessary to provide a stepping stone to the next level for learners at […]
A learner-driven revolution in education is unfolding around the world, says Rod Bristow, as Pearson launches its inaugural Global Learner Survey. The new study captures the opinions of learners worldwide, but are we ready to hear them? Technology, automation, globalisation and an unpredictable political environment are affecting everything about our world – especially work and […]
Opinion
The Level 4 and 5 higher technical education (HTE) space has been the subject of much attention in recent months, with the Department for Education’s Review of Level 4 and 5 Higher Technical Education (HTE) highlighting the great potential of and need for this type of education. The government is focused on strengthening this landscape […]
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The UK is the only country where more than half of people feel university did not prepare them for their career, new research by Pearson has found. A total of 51 per cent of 1,001 UK respondents aged 16 to 70 said as much for Pearson’s first ever Global Learner Survey, while only 45 per […]
Could the football transfer process work in the regulated world of FE? It’s worth a try, says Sam Parrett Watching my husband glued to the TV for 24 hours during the last few days of the football transfer window made me think about how different further education might be if our employment law framework was […]
An England-based training provider owned by a college in Wales has closed down amid multiple investigations into allegations that learner certificates were falsely claimed for. A cache of internal emails passed to FE Week by a whistleblower appears to reveal staff at Element Skills Training had been claiming certificates for learners when they had not […]
It has been nearly a year now since, in November 2018, FE Week first reported that Brooklands College had paid a mysterious Andrew Merritt and his company SCL Security Ltd close to £20m as an apprenticeship subcontractor. There is no evidence that SCL Security Ltd advertised their courses and the college was even unable (or […]
