Apprenticeships, Colleges, Long read

Starting the weekend early at Derwentside

If you enter Derwentside College after 2pm on a Friday, you’ll find it empty. The principal, Chris Todd, will...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read, SEND

National Star College: teaching students how to speak up and fight back

Dan, who has cerebral palsy and communicates with the world through technology that tracks his eye movements, giggles with...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Long read

Rotheram: the ‘apprentice’ mayor

Liverpool City Region metro mayor Steve Rotheram is donning a hi-vis vest, trowel in hand, and reminiscing to local...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Colleges, Long read, sixth forms

The story of PiXL: how the pursuit of excellence found new meaning

On a mission to help school and college leaders solve shared problems together, Pixl chief Rachel Johnson talks to...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Apprenticeships, Colleges, Long read

Darren Hankey, Hartlepool College

Darren Hankey is keen for his students to grasp the tantalising opportunities to acquire net zero skills that are...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
investigation, Long read

Why young asylum seekers and refugees are struggling to access college courses

Young people fleeing conflict, oppression and destitution in their home countries are arriving in England in record numbers. In...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, RAAC, specialist colleges

From rebellious pupil to champion of specialist colleges

Clare Howard, chief executive of Natspec, the body representing specialist colleges, is determined to get their voices heard. But...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Skills reform

LSIPS: a chance to change, or a chance missed?

Gillian Keegan is determined that local skills improvement plans will ease the nation’s skills crisis. Jessica Hill lifts the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Long read, Training Providers

Private equity and training: a complicated relationship explained

The last ten years has seen a gold rush of global private equity (PE) companies seeking to make the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill