November 2012 – The Policy Consortium

Ian Nash writes: The FE Guild – a sea-change or just another pendulum swing?

By EditorJW Posted on November 20, 2012 Posted in FE Guild

Why the sudden rush? When further education leaders put flesh on the bones of former FE and Skills minister John Hayes’ idea of a guild for the sector, they found compelling arguments to support it. But it couldn’t and shouldn’t …

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Mick Fletcher comments on possible anti-FE snobbery in the UTC movement

By EditorJW Posted on November 13, 2012 Posted in Further Education, Ofsted, University Technical College, Vocational Education

It is now broadly accepted that one of the factors holding back the progress of vocational education in England is the association between different types of education and social class; the snobbery that sees academic education as being for the …

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Month: November 2012

Ian Nash writes: The FE Guild – a sea-change or just another pendulum swing?

Mick Fletcher comments on possible anti-FE snobbery in the UTC movement