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Stephen Exley
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‘We have one thing in common - a love for FE’
Ex-minister Vince Cable and the NUS’ Shakira Martin join forces to launch learner-centred research project
18 November 2016
Technically on the right path?
The Wolf report set out to make vocational education equal to academic routes. It was hailed by government at the time as ‘groundbreaking’. But, five years on, what impact has it really had in schools and colleges? The report’s author and sector experts give their verdict to Stephen Exley
18 November 2016
Colleges not ‘in a mess’, insists FE commissioner
Richard Atkins tells the Association of Colleges’ annual conference that he has witnessed some ‘spectacular’ colleges
16 November 2016
‘Poorest students hit the hardest’ by GCSE resits
Calls for a change in policy as study links lack of progress with social deprivation
11 November 2016
GCSE resits ‘hit poorest students the hardest’
Calls for a change in policy as study links lack of progress with social deprivation
11 November 2016
Lord Baker: ‘Every school in the country should have 3D printers’
The Conservative peer also reveals how Michael Gove refused to support university technical colleges when he was education secretary
7 November 2016