The coalition’s midterm ‘renewal of vows’ was an opportunity for the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister to reaffirm their commitment to the government’s ongoing programme of reform. The 52-page review document dedicated a page and a half to ‘further education and universities’ and, while there was little new in policy terms, there was a [...]
We live in a society in which the family you are born into and brought up in is still a major factor in your chances of achieving in learning; our annual participation survey and many others (including the Government’s own National Adult Learning Survey) provide ample evidence of this. This matters because there are strong [...]
Last Thursday over 500 people turned up at the NEC in Birmingham to celebrate Further Education, at the Times Educational Supplement FE Awards. Alongside the enormous range of activity going on at The Skills Show, these Awards were set up by the TES to recognise the imagination, ability and professionalism of those working with post-16 [...]
