In the post-pandemic world, colleges need vision to transform, and the leadership provided by senior teams and governing bodies is under the spotlight like never before. With the joint threats of recession, inequality, labour shortages and inflation amid ongoing political chaos, the need to raise skill levels to transform the UK workforce only adds pressure to the cooker.
The Covid pandemic presented challenges to which most educational leaders adapted heroically. Many forward-looking colleges had already introduced alternative learning methodologies and were well placed to deal with the obstacles to learning presented by lockdowns. But many had not responded and continue not to do so. These colleges must urgently develop their leadership to establish a clear vision for the next crisis – which is already here.
