Is your long-term strategy the biggest influence on your short-term planning?
It is around this time of year that Colleges are busy preparing and polishing budgets and forecasts for next academic year. With a Government Budget…
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10 reasons why ‘Resigners’ feel that way
Have some of your employees walked through your organisation’s door on their first day of work full of (excuse the literature analogy) ‘Great Expectations’, only…
Leveraging technology to improve learning
The rise of digital technology has led to huge developments in how both academic and vocational courses are delivered, with educators at all levels looking…
What the Green Party will do for FE
The Green Party believes in education. We believe in funding the future of our younger generations. That’s why, unlike Labour, the Conservatives, and the Liberal…
Resistance is not only fertile, it’s contagious
I spoke recently at a conference in London to a paper called “Resistance is fertile: The demands the FE and Skills sector must make of…
It’s official: maths means money
How do I get a well-paid job? It’s a question many young people understandably worry about and now we have the answer: new research from…
Keep lessons light, bright and positive
When pupils are disaffected with education, feeling hopeless about their future and struggling to revise, the fast approaching exam season is an especially stressful time…
Solving the apprenticeship perception problem
So according to the recent Demos Commission on Apprenticeships research it appears that everyone loves apprenticeships. Except they don’t when it comes to their own…
Making migration work
Imagine being worried about how your children are doing at school, but not having the language skills to talk confidently to their teachers. Or understanding…
Latest cuts will hasten skills ‘timebomb’
As colleges and independent training providers across the country come to terms with the latest round of cuts to the adult skills budget, it’s interesting…