Skills reform

FE white paper: The key reforms

The FE white paper included more than 30 proposals but the majority repeat or build on current reforms rather...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

FE white paper sets out ‘ambitious’ reforms

“New powers” for the education secretary to intervene in colleges and plans for funding reform have been revealed today...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Here are 4 things the FE White Paper missed out

Verdict on the White Paper? Fine start but requires improvement, writes Stephen Evans “We must put employers’ needs for...

Jess Staufenberg
Stephen Evans
Skills reform

DfE finally publishes ‘interim’ response to Augar Review

The Department for Education has finally published its initial response to Philip Augar’s review of Post-18 Education and Funding,...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

I fear today’s FE White Paper is the worst of both worlds

Neither political capital or actual capital are backing up today’s FE White Paper, writes Jonathan Simons In 2009, while...

Jess Staufenberg
Jonathan Simons
Skills reform

Never in 37 years have I seen colleges in the limelight like this White Paper

This White Paper is the first glimpse of where further education could be heading – for the better –...

Jess Staufenberg
Sally Dicketts