Who’d be an apprenticeships manager? Education secretary Damian Hinds has called for a better showing from colleges than their current 26% share (2017-18) of the apprentice training market, down from

Some of my long-suffering GCSE resit colleagues saw a brief glimmer of light at the end of the maths and English  tunnel last month, with the news that more students were passing these exams by age 19

Secret lecturer: No pretence, total honesty and more funding?That great carrot in the sky left dangling by the chancellor as a campaigning target for FE colleges may not happen this summer. Recent

Secret lecturer: No pretence, total honesty and more funding?That great carrot in the sky left dangling by the chancellor as a campaigning target for FE colleges may not happen this summer. Recent

According to the recent Times Higher Education World University Rankings, less than one fifth of the world’s top 200 universities are led by women. The 2016-2017 report showed that 18% of the top

I can only hope the range of open days, presentations and information campaigns being hosted by my college and others during this week’s annual National Apprenticeship Week (March 4-8) will convince

Artificial intelligence (AI) was a key theme at last month’s educational technology show, Bett 2019, in London. A busy timetable kept me away but seeing an online press release about one product, in

Summer weather (so far this week), summer term, and summer Brexit? Maybe. We’ve had a welcome lull in Brexit news over the past few days, but with a new, long term ahead of us at our college, thoughts

My colleagues and I are always trying to raise our teaching standards. We are all professionals and take pride in what we do. But how do colleges help us achieve it? Initial teacher training sets your

With Easter in sight, colleges are preparing for parents’ evening - a chance to offer praise where praise is due but also to share a few home truths with parents and guardians in front of students who