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Almost 50 jobs at risk as college seeks £1m savings

Staff angered at ‘kick in the teeth’ plans

News, Colleges

Rachel Bown, FE lecturer of the year

Rachel Bown was crowned the FE lecturer of the year at the 2023 Pearson National Teaching awards for the inspirational PE teaching she does at her small specialist college, Fairfield Farm in Wiltshire. But Bown is inspiring not just for her teaching.  After a brain tumour left her blind in one eye and at one […]

Profiles, Long read

Social mobility rests on realising the vision of all-age careers provision

A single unified careers system can catalyse social justice and ensure employers and individuals can fulfil their ambitions

Opinion, Careers

Interview: Meet AELP’s new CEO, Ben Rowland

Ben Rowland has just finished his first week as chief executive of the Association for Employment and Learning Providers. He tells Shane Chowen about his plans to rebuild membership following a turbulent period and get decision-makers face-to-face with private providers As a child, Ben Rowland remembers one Christmas day when his mother invited three people […]

Feature, News, Profiles, Long read, Training Providers

The Staffroom. The role changes but the value of technicians is permanent

Brian Enefer reflects on the value of the role he has undertaken for City College Norwich for his entire working life – and how it has changed since 1968

Opinion, The Staffroom - opinion

Family learning: Where next for the ‘hidden jewel’ of adult education?

Family learning programmes have had to fight for survival in a competitive funding environment that demands quantifiable outcomes for learners. But the provision, which involves adults and children learning together, now seems to be enjoying a bit of a revival, with over 20 per cent more people taking up family learning courses in 2022-23 than […]

Feature, News, Adult education, Long read

What Labour and Lib Dems can learn from Singapore’s SkillsFuture Credit scheme

Singapore’s example shows individual learner accounts can work and don’t need to wait for central government to be tried out

Opinion, Politics

Overseas FE teachers exempt from new immigration earnings thresholds

Ministers claim reforms would encourage ‘big business’ to invest in training for domestic workers

News, FE workforce

Ban graduates from apprenticeships, says think tank

Former government skills adviser calls for reforms to boost education routes for school and college leavers that don’t go to uni

News, Politics