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Why we shouldn’t welcome the FE White Paper
The new Skills for Jobs White Paper put colleges at the centre of an underfunded, narrow, skills-based and business-led plan, writes Sean Vernell
General
25 January 2021
Busting 3 myths about the ‘superiority’ of exams
It is time to abandon our obsession with exams being the best form of assessment, writes Sean Vernell
Secondary
14 January 2021
Assessment: Time to close down the exam factory
When this crisis is over, we should not turn back to a system that has so badly failed many young people, says UCU’s Sean Vernell
3 April 2020
How to make your curriculum eco-friendly
To truly tackle the climate change crisis, we need to rethink how we teach and learn, writes Sean Vernell
3 March 2020
‘College merger mania has failed. We need a new model’
Pledging extra funding is all well and good, but what FE really needs is collaboration not competition, says Sean Vernell
4 December 2019
‘Without decent pay you cannot have excellence’
Without paying staff a decent wage, you cannot achieve excellence in education, Sean Vernell writes
30 November 2018
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