Skills reform

We need the same rigour of teaching in colleges as in schools

Schools soared up the international league tables under Gove and Gibb. Colleges, by contrast, remain the poor relation. It’s...

Jessica Hill
Will Bickford Smith
Higher education

Maintenance grants to return under the LLE, Phillipson announces

Value of the grants will be revealed at next month’s budget

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Colleges

UCU’s 76-college hit list shocks principals

Unions demand 10 per cent pay rise and national pay bargaining or face formal disputes

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Colleges

Successes and failures down under can guide FE reform here

The UK’s FE system is stuck in silos. Lessons from New Zealand and Victoria in Australia show how bold...

Jessica Hill
Liam Sloan
Colleges

Exam success is nothing without the ability to build relationships

Qualifications open doors, but it’s relationships that keep them open. Without structured support for social and emotional skills, too...

Jessica Hill
Imran Mir
GCSE resits

The challenge for resits runs deeper than exam volume

With the full findings of the curriculum and assessment review due soon, we believe that fewer exams, more relevant...

Jessica Hill
Lucy Chowns and Katy Lewis
The Staffroom - opinion

Replacing paper with the cloud is a pie-in-the-sky CO2 solution

Going paperless was billed as a sure-fire way to cut carbon use, but we’re still printing, and its replacement...

Jessica Hill
David Murray
Colleges

Riding Universal’s roller coaster means FE working together now

The entertainment giant’s plans offer a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Bedfordshire. But without early investment in colleges and training providers,...

Jessica Hill
Fabienne Bailey and Yiannis Koursis
Colleges

Surge in data subject access requests for colleges fuelled by AI

Learners and parents are now using AI to generate data subject access requests (DSARs) packed with legal jargon and...

Jessica Hill
Jess Pembroke