Stick or Twist – FE takes a gamble
News this week that the area review transition fund has still yet to unfold and reveal its hand has left us guessing. Many providers keen…
Tim Evans
RIPE FOR REFORM
We face a major challenge in our training and skills sector. The need for more highly skilled people, trained effectively in order to grow our…
Future-proofing FE
The government’s review into FE advocates fewer larger and more financially resilient colleges with greater specialisation. Delays to the outcomes of these reviews and important…
Changing Currents in Education
Turbulent times across the sector are indicative of the changes that will need to take place if we are to remain at the forefront of…
Future Leaders in FE
The future of FE as we know it is going through a considerable transition. The ‘more for less agenda’ has seen colleges merging, re-structuring and…
Specialise to survive
How will training providers continue to improve to offer responsive and employer led apprenticeships? There is currently a strategic repositioning that is sweeping through the…
Trailblazing the way
Targets for apprenticeships are tough with the government calling for 3 million by 2020. Despite employers playing a pivotal role in the design of the…
Delivering Functional Skills
Providing flexible and responsive Functional Skills under the revised Ofsted framework will be one of many challenges facing the sector in 2013/14. Delivering these within…
Doing more with less
Can you place the following in order: Quality, Efficiency and Income? Which are the most important to your organisation and which will be at…
Rigour and Responsiveness
Recent publications in the sector place work-based training at the heart of reforms to provide the economy with a workforce that is highly trained.…