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The employer voice

Karen Walker is looking for enthusiasm and a willingness to learn among the learners she sees at Greggs Greggs is a baker and a retailer with ten regional bakeries and a central savoury plant supplying more than 1,680 shops across the UK. We employ around 20,000 people. We work with various disadvantaged work groups ranging […]

Opinion

Q&A with the new AELP chief

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers is just over a month away from being headed by new man Stewart Segal. FE Week reporter Eleanor Radford spoke with him to find out his thoughts on all things FE. What are your thoughts on the new Education and Training Foundation (formerly known as the FE Guild)? […]

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Focus on traineeships as clock ticks down to scheme launch

The long-awaited traineeship scheme was in the spotlight at an Association of Colleges conference in Central London last Tuesday. More than 60 delegates from across the country asked questions about and discussed the programme, which will be available from September for 16 to 19-year-olds. Traineeships will prepare young people for work or an apprenticeship through […]

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AELP launches manifesto

The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has produced a ten-point action plan aimed at “driving an economic recovery based on skills acquisition and jobs”. The association mini manifesto was launched today — day one of its annual conference — and calls for government to keep up spending on education, employment and skills at […]

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Cultivating a change in careers provision

Millions of people today work in jobs that didn’t exist when their parents left education. It’s a new world that demands more coherent national and local careers provision, says Deirdre Hughes We are facing a significant economic challenge; there is high unemployment (especially among young people) at the same time as employers struggle to recruit […]

Opinion

Let’s get down to business

The FE sector and business are failing to lay the foundations for tomorrow’s innovative workforce, says Sandra O’Neill. Too many young people are leaving college without the knowledge, awareness and aptitude for business and entrepreneurialism that is vital to employers and to creating the future business leaders that our economy needs. As the first cohort […]

Opinion

Cracking the glass ceiling

FE can show the private sector a thing or two when it comes to the representation of women in top jobs, says Sally Dicketts The media has been paying a lot of attention to the representation of women — or lack of it — in top roles in FTSE 100 and 250 companies. It’s not […]

Opinion

Time to climb aboard the internship

Former House of Commons Education Select Committee specialist Ben Nicholls is head of policy at London’s Newham College. He writes exclusively for FE Week, every month One of my most enjoyable meetings of the last fortnight was with a Labour MP — a major champion of FE — and his research assistant, currently on placement […]

Opinion

Why are so few applying for principalship?

Ofsted, funding cuts, policy changes . . . it’s no surprise that the number of prospective FE principals/chief executives is falling, says Mike Hopkins A straw poll of principal and chief executive colleagues makes clear the reality of the decline in the number of prospective principals. Why has this happened? Broadly speaking, issues include Ofsted […]

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