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While Jeremy Corbyn has promised that Labour’s National Education Service would be ‘free at the point of use’, what would it actually do, asks Andy Westwood

Our hopes for the new technical qualifications should be tempered by the fact that they will take an age to filter through to the workplace, writes Andy Westwood

Politicians are increasingly out of touch with deprived communities, but FE is on the front line and should step up with a new vision

There are far too many shortcomings and omissions in the latest attempt to overhaul the FE sector

Andy Westwood, associate vice-president for public affairs at the University of Manchester, professor of politics at Winchester University and a former government special adviser, looks at political expectations placed on further education