Further Education & Apprenticeships Monthly News Round-Up: March 2024

We sit down with Peter Aldous MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Further Education and Lifelong Learning to get his take on the key challenges to the FE and skills sector in 2024....

This month, senior leadership consultant and experienced college leader 

This month, MBKB's business director and CEO Mark Bremner gives us his provider's experience of achievement rates and how the system of measuring success needs to be changed if...

This month, we spoke with Sir Mike Tomlinson, former chief inspector of Ofsted, about how the watchdog's role has expanded over the years and how he thinks its working practices could...

This month, we spoke with former education secretary Lord Blunkett about his work with the Protect Student Choice campaign and fellow former ministers to force the government to look again...

This month, we spoke with former Children's Commissioner and chair of the Commission on Young Lives Anne Longfield about the problems with maths tuition and the challenges with...

MBKB's Chief Executive Mark Bremner proposes a series of reforms regarding wages and the flexibility in apprenticeship provision to overcome poor apprenticeship completion rates.

Simon Ashworth, Director of Policy for the AELP, outlines how the government could modernise the way success and quality is measured within apprenticeships.

Natspec's senior policy manager Ruth Perry sets out how the specialist college estate has been degraded without adequate capital funding which is why, she argues, the sector needs a...

EDSK researcher Eleanor Regan writes on why regulation of apprenticeship provision should be taken away from the Department for Education and focus more on the role of the employer.

Make UK's director of policy Verity Davidge discusses how T Levels can benefit the manufacturing sector and what is holding employers back from fully engaging with them... 

Association of School and College Leaders general secretary Geoff Barton discusses how a lack of teachers could undo maths to 18 and why there could be a better way of equipping young people...