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Sean Vernell
All articles by Sean Vernell
‘Our students deserve well-paid teachers’
The fight for fair pay is also a fight for the wellbeing of students, writes UCU’s Sean Vernell
1 November 2018
‘History helps students to explore gang fears’
19th-century literature reveals similarities with the struggles of today’s students, writes English teacher Sean Vernell
13 June 2018
‘Winter has come for FE industrial relations - national pay bargaining mechanisms are failing’
National pay bargaining mechanisms are failing the sector, writes Sean Vernell, of the UCU union
23 April 2018
‘College supergroups signal the end of incorporation model’
Sean Vernell argues incorporation and the new supergroups have made colleges more remote from their communities. Is a new model needed?
7 February 2018
As the Finns shelve subjects, colleges take up the theme
London FE providers give the radical Nordic approach to ‘contextual’ learning a try
24 March 2017
Project-based learning: an alternative to GCSE resits?
The FE sector cannot go through another year of attempting to implement a disastrous and damaging resit policy, writes Sean Vernell. The answer? A move towards project-based learning
6 December 2016