By Lorna Unwin, Institute of Education. How can vocational teachers and trainers (VTTs) develop and their subject and pedagogical expertise? How much CPD goes on ‘under the radar’ as VTTs seek their…Read more…
A learning and teaching toolkit for vocational education
Professor Bill Lucas will be giving a keynote speech at the ATL’s FE conference 2015 in London on Friday 10 July. Elsewhere in the world, they talk about pedagogy when discussing vocational…Read more…
There is policy and reality. Why can’t we bring the two together?
Dual professionalism was meant to leap the chasm of teacher practitioner and industry expert. However, it did not spell out what ‘industry expert’ means or even attempt to develop what such a…Read more…
A qualified workforce – what was said
Alan Thomson is editor of InTuition magazine. The first seminar in ATL’s Developing collaborative expertise in the FE sector programme took place on 30 January 2015 at ATL’s offices in…Read more…
A qualified workforce?
Why a qualified workforce? Is this a question we should even be posing? Does it make sense to talk of an unqualified workforce? How is it that teaching in FE colleges or academies, independent…Read more…