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Could better investment in skills derail future train strikes?

Training and upskilling opportunities are an important way to improve job satisfaction and retention in essential jobs, writes Kirstie Donnelly Last week’s rail strikes highlighted many critical issues facing workers in our transport sector, with trade union RMT calling for better pay, better working conditions and the guarantee of no forced redundancy. But they aren’t […]

Opinion

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 395

Rachel Ellis-Jones Principal, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education Start date: June 2022 Previous Job: Deputy Principal, Bishop Burton College Interesting fact: Rachel had lots of interesting jobs as a student, including working for the National Union Of Mineworkers, a famous ballerina, driving a forklift truck and frying fish and chips. Danny Metters Principal, […]

Movers and Shakers

AELP conference highlights: Leaders talk funding rate review, the levy and staffing crisis

Ofsted, AoC, IfATE and CBI among speakers at AELP conference

News, Apprenticeships, Ofsted, Pay

Universities told to advertise drop-out rates

Universities have been asked to advertise drop-out and employment rates so, in the minister’s words, applicants avoid ‘dead end’ courses

News, Higher education

Ofsted to hit England’s largest apprenticeship provider with grade 3

Quality concerns found at Lifetime Training, which delivers to big-name employers and the civil service

News, Apprenticeships, Ofsted

Keith Smith to leave DfE to become London college boss

He has been a top skills civil servant for a decade

News

Lord Mike Watson, shadow education minister

Having become an MP in 1989, Lord Mike Watson has spent many years in frustrating opposition for the Labour Party. As he steps down as shadow education minister in the Lords, he offers words of advice for his successors It’s not often you sit in a grand, wood-panelled room in the heart of Westminster, and […]

Profiles

Staff now plan to strike during first week of September over ‘fire and rehire’ row at London college

14 consecutive days of industrial action have been announced

News, Colleges, Industrial action

Here are the moving stories we heard from people who really want to skill up

People with caring responsibilities and disabilities must be properly understood if they are to access the lifelong loan entitlement, write Ed Reza Schwitzer and Patrick Thomson In our last piece in FE Week we highlighted that the core challenge for the lifelong loan entitlement (LLE) is behavioural – to have impact, individuals, providers and employers […]

Opinion