An FE based edition. FE Colleges, Life Long Learning and Skills have all been marginalised. We look at how this could be reversed for the benefit of learners and society.
An FE based edition. FE Colleges, Life Long Learning and Skills have all been marginalised. We look at how this could be reversed for the benefit of learners and society.
Blog 11 September 2023. Liz Bromley CEO Newcastle College Group makes a plea for FE Colleges, Anya Cook looks at women and life long learning, James Whiting writes an open letter on T levels.
I’ve only just read this article and I want to say why FE was so important to me.
I failed my 11+ and left school with no recognised qualifications, aged 15. After ten years of dead-end jobs
Derby College (then Wilmorton gave me a place on their mature students 1 year O-level course. The following year I did the 1 year A-level course then graduated from the University of Bath in 1980.
I taught in FE for 22 years . I then moved to the University of Derby where I trained FE teachers and university lecturers on PGCEHE programmes
My book, ‘Teaching in the lifelong learning sector’ now has two had two editions and my book on teaching in HE was published in 2017. I became a Senior Teaching Fellow. I have an MA in Education and, for a retirement project, gained an MA in Creative Writing.
This may all sound like bragging but I wanted to show FE transformed my life.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - 'Btec' is a trade name, a marketing tool used by a commercial profit-making company, by saying 'Develop and grow Btecs' we are adding to Pearson's market monopoly and profit. The term for all vocational qualifications is VTQs, it's a simple enough collective term that we should be encouraging the use of.
I’ve only just read this article and I want to say why FE was so important to me.
I failed my 11+ and left school with no recognised qualifications, aged 15. After ten years of dead-end jobs
Derby College (then Wilmorton gave me a place on their mature students 1 year O-level course. The following year I did the 1 year A-level course then graduated from the University of Bath in 1980.
I taught in FE for 22 years . I then moved to the University of Derby where I trained FE teachers and university lecturers on PGCEHE programmes
My book, ‘Teaching in the lifelong learning sector’ now has two had two editions and my book on teaching in HE was published in 2017. I became a Senior Teaching Fellow. I have an MA in Education and, for a retirement project, gained an MA in Creative Writing.
This may all sound like bragging but I wanted to show FE transformed my life.
Peter Scales
I've said it before and I'll say it again - 'Btec' is a trade name, a marketing tool used by a commercial profit-making company, by saying 'Develop and grow Btecs' we are adding to Pearson's market monopoly and profit. The term for all vocational qualifications is VTQs, it's a simple enough collective term that we should be encouraging the use of.