Now is the time to deliver a comprehensive 'Green Skills' curriculum to all our learners, staff, workforce and society. Our pledges and...

The debate is done, and common agreement has been reached on the necessary actions. We are now at the stage where we need to design,...

What has happened in 2021 What a year! 2021 has certainly been a different one. During early summer 2021 the common belief was that the...

I never thought such a time would ever come when sustainability would be top of the global agenda and people queuing up to attempt to...

With COP26 on the horizon, Net Zero Carbon in the news daily and with the #greenrevolution and #buildbackgreener clearly under way,...

‘Decarbonisation’ refers to the process of reducing ‘carbon intensity’, by lowering the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...

Since our release from the horrors of Covid-19 lockdown, a new dawn for sustainability has emerged. Interestingly most of us did not...

The COVID - 19 recovery and reality of Post-Brexit UK, coupled with the #G7summit in Cornwall, the forthcoming #COP26 in Scotland in Nov,...

I have been working on a project to develop a strategic evidence-based decision toolkit for the Further Education and Skills (FES)...

Providing an annual reflection on historical performance to improve and inform performance management and planning, via a “quality cycle”...

The advent of the new Ofsted Education Inspection Framework (EIF) has been a blessing for the sector. Organisation have been able to...

When we lookback at the events of 2020 – 2021 from the future, there will be two powerful legacies that will stand out in history. 1. The...

As part of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee, a targeted level 3 adult offer has been developed to support adults without an existing full...

I have been lucky and unfortunate with this beast! It is one of the big things that haunts us all in Further Education! As we all know,...

Quality improvement in the Further Education and Skills (FES) sector is the key driver for operational and strategic focus of all...

As the business planning season is in full swing, with the traditional review of provision, in which we analyse recruitment, Key...

A risk based approach to understand and plan for the quality improvement journey, to secure sustainable quality improvements and improve...

In 2011, I started working in the Further Education College in SE London, where I had studied for my A levels in the early 1990's. I was...

At the start lockdown in March 2020, I was working in an FE College in Central London, I was project managing the Strategic College...

Self-Assessment Reports (SARs) and Quality Improvement Plans (QIPs) are far too often just a tick box exercise. They are more than often...