UCU response to BTEC cuts
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  • May 12, 2022
The level 2 qualifications review is deafeningly silent on key problems
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  • May 4, 2022
Qualifications at level 2 and below consultation response
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  • May 3, 2022
Ofqual voices concern over DfE reforms to level 2 and below qualifications
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  • May 3, 2022
The skills bill’s ambition cannot become reality without colleges
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  • Apr 28, 2022
Delivery challenges ahead as skills bill finally gains royal assent
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How should further education and apprenticeships change post pandemic?
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  • Apr 27, 2022
Here are 3 urgent ways T Levels still need reforming
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  • Apr 25, 2022
First local skills improvement plans published
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  • Apr 13, 2022
We have more unaccompanied asylum-seeking students, but not enough support
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  • Mar 28, 2022
Lessons from a newcomer to further education
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Working across the sector to improve education
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  • Mar 10, 2022
AELP responds to launch of government consultation on reform of level 2 and below qualifications
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DfE reveals plan to scrap thousands of level 2 and below qualifications
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  • Mar 2, 2022
NEU comment on post-16 consultation
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Open consultation: Review of post-16 qualifications at level 2 and below
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AELP responds to launch of government consultation on reform of level 2 and below qualifications
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Post-16 qualifications boosted to help more people to progress
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  • Mar 2, 2022
ASCL comment on plans to reform post-16 level 2 qualifications
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  • Mar 2, 2022
Government reform of qualifications at Level 2 and below in England – FAB launches 3 Key-Tests
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The level two qualification – an overlooked solution to skills shortages?
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This is how to draw more HE students into FE
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  • Feb 27, 2022
One bill was never going to solve our skills challenge
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  • Feb 26, 2022
Zahawi makes plea to peers to leave the skills bill alone
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  • Feb 25, 2022
The skills bill could have been so much better
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  • Feb 25, 2022
Make 2022 the year FE is unchained at last
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  • Feb 14, 2022
Levelling up reforms don’t match scale of the challenge
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  • Feb 9, 2022
Levelling Up: Ambushed by waffle
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  • Feb 2, 2022
Levelling up white paper: The key reforms for FE and skills
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  • Feb 2, 2022
New government white paper will not level up post-16 education
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  • Feb 1, 2022
Researching the impact of enrichment in further education
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  • Feb 1, 2022
The real revolution in the white paper was taking teaching seriously
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  • Jan 28, 2022
The skills white paper: too much rhetoric, too little action
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  • Jan 21, 2022
Edge response to the Education Select Committee Inquiry on ‘The Future of post 16 qualifications’
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  • Jan 18, 2022
New year, new challenges for the FE and awarding sector
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  • Jan 14, 2022
AELP welcomes Skills Bill progress, but reforms must go further to maximise learner and employer choice
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  • Nov 18, 2021
BTECs: 118 MPs and Lords call on new education secretary to rethink cull
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  • Oct 13, 2021
Key amendments secured in Skills Bill debate in House Of Lords
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  • Oct 13, 2021
Skills Bill debate: Senior Tories split on level 3 reform
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  • Oct 13, 2021
A new era for Further Education
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  • Oct 9, 2021
‘I have no time for snobbery in education’ – Keir Starmer
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  • Sep 23, 2021
FE has the ambition and aspiration to improve equality and diversity, but change is slow
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  • Sep 7, 2021
Valuing progression and achievement for all: Embedding broad educational ‘stairways’ key to post-16 education reform
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  • Aug 20, 2021
FE Hero: Let’s hope for a real turnaround for FE
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Reforming our post-16 landscape: An important milestone in the reform of technical education in England
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  • Jul 15, 2021
Consultation: Reforms to further education (FE) funding and accountability
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  • Jul 15, 2021
Labour: Conservatives' FE failings are hitting the NHS
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  • May 18, 2021
The Queen’s Speech is welcome – but passing legislation is only the first step
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  • May 13, 2021
What would I tell the prime minister about FE? Well...
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  • May 7, 2021
Why FE people need to be part of policymaking
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  • Mar 10, 2021
Skills bootcamps ‘counter-intuitive’ to long-term FE simplification, top civil servant admits
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  • Mar 5, 2021
Speed and scope are now crucial for the skills white paper
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  • Mar 3, 2021
Build Back Better: Our plan for growth
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  • Mar 3, 2021
Long-term funding key to new further education plans, says SMC
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  • Feb 21, 2021
A look at the apprenticeship landscape
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  • Feb 18, 2021
Level 2 courses: Why we must not kick away the ladder
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  • Feb 18, 2021
Does the FE sector need its own chartered college?
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  • Feb 17, 2021
Filling a youth-shaped gap in the FE White Paper: Reducing inequalities in post-16 progression
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  • Feb 16, 2021
The Guardian view on further education reform: the wrong answers
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  • Feb 1, 2021
The FE White Paper: It's disappointing at first but...
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  • Jan 29, 2021
Culture change is the biggest challenge for colleges starting their digital journey
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  • Jan 27, 2021
Robert Halfon MP lays out his vision for post-Covid education and assessment system
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  • Jan 27, 2021
Is now the best of times or the worst of times for FE?
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  • Jan 26, 2021
Why are training providers missing from FE White Paper?
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  • Jan 26, 2021
Why we shouldn't welcome the FE White Paper
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  • Jan 25, 2021
Sector gives FE white paper the thumbs up
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  • Jan 25, 2021
FE White Paper: boost for status of colleges needs proper funding to make it fly
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  • Jan 25, 2021
Here are 4 things the FE White Paper missed out
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  • Jan 25, 2021
Common path visible amid avalanche of DFE policy papers
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  • Jan 25, 2021
We're at a turning point for further education
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  • Jan 25, 2021
The FE White Paper is too little, too late
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  • Jan 22, 2021
Post-16 reform: Why all eyes are on the Treasury
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  • Jan 22, 2021
The Skills for Jobs White Paper is validation for FE
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  • Jan 22, 2021
FE White Paper: Why we need to trust, and be trusted
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  • Jan 22, 2021
The Sutton Trust responds to the Skills for Jobs white paper
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  • Jan 22, 2021
White paper Q&A with skills minister: ‘We have got an awful lot to do and an awful lot to prove’
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Pioneering reforms to boost skills and jobs
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Post-16 reform: Today's announcements at a glance
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Keegan: Skills White Paper is FE's 'day in the sun'
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  • Jan 21, 2021
8 points of note from today’s announcements
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Skills and further education White Paper doesn’t go far enough
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Kate Green says White Paper has come too late
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  • Jan 21, 2021
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  • Jan 21, 2021
I fear today’s FE White Paper is the worst of both worlds
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Response to FE White Paper on 21 January
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Putting employers at the heart of the system: Will the White Paper support colleges to build back better?
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Commissioners respond to the Skills For Jobs White Paper
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Never in 37 years have I seen colleges in the limelight like this White Paper
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  • Jan 21, 2021
FE White Paper: Government to 'overhaul' accountability
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Universities degree 'not the only route to success'
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Government to reform post-16 education to better align with employers' needs
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Further education blueprint promises more say for UK employers
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FE white paper sets out ‘ambitious’ reforms
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  • Jan 21, 2021
Overhaul of skills and vocational education to focus on employability
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  • Jan 21, 2021
FE White Paper: Our sector needs support and respect
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  • Jan 20, 2021
Reflections on a collaboration to tell and imagine past, present and future stories of FE
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  • Jan 11, 2021
The plan for Further Education is due to be revealed: here's what it should say
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  • Nov 25, 2020
Ministers should be bold about introducing a demand-led system in the Further Education white paper
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  • Nov 25, 2020
Spending review: Funding 'must follow the learner'
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  • Nov 25, 2020
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  • Nov 20, 2020
AELP response to ‘The English College of the Future’ report
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  • Nov 20, 2020
The truth is – college leaders can’t agree on what is best for their future
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  • Nov 20, 2020
Why college networks might be a step in the right direction
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  • Nov 20, 2020
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  • Nov 20, 2020
Wilshaw: FE needs 'big political beast' in charge
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Michael Wilshaw Policy Post-16 FE reforms
  • Nov 18, 2020
Gavin Williamson’s speech on lifting FE’s ‘potential’ through the white paper: The full text
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  • Nov 18, 2020
Kate Green: Competition doesn't give best outcomes
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  • Nov 18, 2020
Overhaul the English post-16 education system through the upcoming FE White Paper to secure a better future for young people, adults and businesses
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  • Nov 18, 2020
Commission: Put legal duty on colleges to collaborate
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  • Nov 18, 2020
Number 10 is driving FE reform too fast and will blame the DfE when the wheels fall off
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  • Oct 1, 2020
Further consideration: Creating a new role, purpose and direction for the FE sector
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  • Sep 18, 2020
Government 'must invest to make FE digital-first'
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  • Sep 9, 2020
The future of FE: A letter to the next AoC president
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  • Jul 31, 2020
Five changes that should be at the heart of FE reform
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  • Jul 31, 2020
Why it feels like déjà vu with Gavin Williamson
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  • Jul 17, 2020
What do we want from the FE White Paper?
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  • Jul 15, 2020
Covid-19: Could these 3 policies fix further education?
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  • Jul 10, 2020
Williamson is right - this is what should happen next
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  • Jul 10, 2020
Importing Germany's dual education system is easier said than done
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  • Jul 9, 2020
What does 'a German-style FE system' even mean?
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Gavin Williamson appoints 'FE reform ambassadors'
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Speech from The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson MP – Secretary of State for Education
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Education Secretary commits to 'levelling up' FE - AoC responds
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Gavin Williamson speech response: Road to recovery must not involve cutting access to education
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  • Jul 9, 2020
ASCL comment on Education Secretary’s speech on FE
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  • Jul 9, 2020
CBI responds to Education Secretary further education speech
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Coronavirus: Gavin Williamson's speech on FE
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Gavin Williamson’s speech on FE reform: The full text
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  • Jul 9, 2020
Williamson: England to get 'German-style' FE system
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  • Jul 9, 2020
DfE seeks 16 senior policy advisers ahead of FE ‘revolution’
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  • Jun 8, 2020
Support for 16-18 is more important than FE reform
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  • May 4, 2020
Further education reforms have not delivered for those who most need them most
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  • Feb 10, 2020