Researching the Further Education Sector
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The impact of the austerity agenda in Further Education
I don’t remember ever seeing a group of famous ex-alumni in the news protesting against cutbacks to their former schools’ funding, yet in the case of further education (FE) in England, a...
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Can social competence be taught to older children and young adults?
As a practitioner within FE I have observed a variety of different levels of learners where the interaction between them may not always be as I would expect. Some learners clearly display the...
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16-19 Learners: Time to Stop Pigeon-Holing and Start Listening
It’s been a busy few years for the FE sector; in fact, I cannot recall a time of greater change during my professional career. Funding cuts have become commonplace in many areas of education,...
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Rhetoric in Vocationalism
The BERA SIG: Post-Compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning has held a number of runs of events in the last year or two and I’ve enjoyed being able to make a small number of the London ones....
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Teachers in further education: more standards, not yet a profession?
Further education (FE) colleges – how they work, what happens in them, who studies in them, who works in them – always seem to get shunted to the margins. They are under-funded, relatively...
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Vocationalism?: Past, Present And Future
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Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning
The sector of post-compulsory education and lifelong learning is a wide and diverse one, covering areas such as the study of 14-19 education and training, further and higher education, adult...