Are apprenticeships the new graduate scheme?
After years of the government supporting apprenticeships (in rhetoric, at least), Ed Miliband has stuck his oar in, promising to make apprenticeships a key plank…
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It’s time vocational education got a makeover
Shockingly the first month of the New Year is already over. People have been dieting and hitting the gym to shed those excess winter pounds,…
Has much really changed in 22 years?
Having spent far too many years working in and around the FE college sector, we were relaxing over a glass of Aldi best red the…
A shopping list for the next government
I like to think that I am a pretty canny shopper. I have honed these abilities over the years so that I know exactly the…
Disruptive innovation – preparing young people for the circular economy
Circular economy is a term growing in resonance across the globe. It refers to an economy that is regenerative by design and is being offered…
Custom-fit cloud
Bespoke solutions are not the only options when it comes to cloud computing in educational institutions. The hybrid cloud is accessible, secure and future-proof; could…
Are PeoplePerHour.com and Fiverr.com replacing the full-time employee?
Should our soon to be ‘future employees’, namely our pupils and students that are about to leave education, step away from the ‘norm’ of seeking…
Government to move away from direct Apprenticeship funding
The government looks set to move away from a direct funding model for Apprenticeships after a consultation showed employers prefer to be given “purchasing power”…
The learner value in a chocolate cake
Looking back over 2014 I remain consistently encouraged by the strength of innovation through adversity that college principals can show. With such pressure on funding,…
Ensuring new skills policies don’t threaten improvements in quality
At the end of 2014 there were a number of key documents and reports published about the FE sector. Most of them point to 2015…