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Disadvantaged communities need well-resourced, high-quality education on their doorstep, says Andy Forbes

Our obsession with exams has created a high-stakes assessment system that fails to adequately recognise skills and puts young people’s mental health at risk

The education system needs fixing, not re-arranging, if we are going to tackle poverty, writes college principal Andy Forbes.

The new technical qualifications face an uphill task to gain acceptance, but offering a job for all who take the first courses would send out a strong signal

University lecturers are earning way more than those in FE, while school salaries are also outstripping FE teacher pay – and it’s causing unrest, writes Andy Forbes

The demise of the construction firm and its apprenticeship programme gives further cause to rethink our oversight of private training providers