Picture this. A member of your teaching staff is three weeks into a formal performance improvement process. Observations have been graded as requiring improvement. You...
This is Part One of three on the under-sixteen social media ban: how we got here, whether it is right and what comes next. On...
This was my fifth AELP National Conference and it's safe to say I've never experienced one quite like it. It was certainly the hottest, but...
In November 2025, in schools and colleges across England, well over 160,000 GCSE English and Maths entries were sat in the autumn series, a figure...
Yusuf Ibrahim, Vice Principal at CAVC, takes Alan Milburn's interim review as a starting point and asks what the Welsh data really tells us about...
Andy Burnham hasn't become Prime Minister yet. His speech at the People's History Museum in Manchester this afternoon reads less like a leadership pitch and...
There is a growing sense that England is finally beginning to talk seriously about tertiary education. The language has shifted, the political framing is changing,...
Across Europe we share a common concern: how do we prevent young people from disappearing from education, employment and training? In England, the term NEET...
The legitimacy of digital assessment is becoming a defining issue for organisations operating in regulated and skills-driven environments. As online exams become embedded across education...
As AI becomes embedded across education and training, leaders face a critical challenge: ensuring that efficiency gains do not erode emotional intelligence. Research suggests human...
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For many school and college leaders, Ofsted sits somewhere between a necessary accountability mechanism and an ever-present source of anxiety. Over the course of my…
A young person’s postcode still has a profound impact on the opportunities they have access to. Despite years of policy focused on skills and education…
Yesterday’s DfE data release showed a headline figure of a 2% decline in adult FE participation. Sounds manageable. Dig deeper, and the picture is far…
Sarah Vickrage of Fellowship of Inspection Nominees explains how staff retention improves if providers apply inclusive practice to staff as well as to learners. Ofsted…
Recent years have exposed how public institutions can fail the people they serve and how the absence of candour can deepen harm when things go…
Ahead of Jisc’s 2026 leadership survey opening in February, Robin Ghurbhurun takes a look at what’s been keeping FE leaders awake at night during the last decade. Since 2016, the FE sector…
Across the Middle East and Africa, a generation of young people stands at a crossroads. They are more educated and connected than ever before, yet…
Part 3 of a 4-part series reviewing Ofsted’s Inclusion Toolkit via the graduated approach: Assess, Plan, Do, Review. In earlier articles in the series we’ve…
Held in Birmingham last week, the AELP Apprenticeship Assessment Summit took place as apprenticeship assessment reform moves out of policy design and towards the point…
Throughout this series, I’ve examined New Zealand’s vocational education reforms and the new Tertiary Education Strategy that frames them. In this sixth article, I address…
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