The Vocational Election?
As we enter the last week of the general election it is interesting to see – and really positive – that both parties are taking…
Norman Crowther
The language of FE or what does it all really mean?
One of the many headed problems that the hydra of FE has is to do with the language that it uses and is used about…
Reflections on responses to the Industrial Strategy
The ongoing need for developing not just higher level vocational qualifications and training, but also a way of providing that need is advanced by the…
Skills Plan or Mission Impossible?
A Personal View On: The Skills Plan or Mission Impossible? It would only be fair to say that anything ambitious, like the Skills Plan, would have many…
Problems of a Market Model of VET: What can we learn from the UK and Australian experiences?
This article is written by Paul Hager, Emeritus Professor, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia and was developed from conversations I had with Paul on the…
Transversal Abilities: The answer to all our problems?
Government policy on work experience With government policy and inspection focus centring more and more around the outcomes for learners, the question of how the…
A new vocational paradigm?
There have been many calls for vocational education and training to be established within the English educational system as a robust and esteemed route, but…
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration?
At the recent London Region Post 14 Network Research and Policy Working Day at the Institute of Education we were given two examples of…
Ecological skills systems: Some FE theory anyone?
I remember doing a research paper around 2000 for the LSDA and found it very difficult to find research on FE that was theoretical. Most…