Senior leaders responsible for curriculum and quality will play a key role in meeting the challenges that lie ahead, explains Rhys Davies, Education and Training Foundation (ETF) Associate and Director of Equip Consultancy Ltd.

Justine Greening is best known to many in the further education (FE) sector as the former secretary of state for education, a position she held in Theresa May’s government from 2016 to 2018. 

Significantly, in doing so she became the first education secretary to have gone to a state school, itself a damning indictment of the way in which an individual’s life chances can be dictated by their social background.

The Education and Training Foundation worked with Stuart Rimmer, CEO of East Coast College Group, to curate a group of leaders from across the sector to explore in a conversation key aspect of wellbeing and the challenges this brings in leadership.

In this article, we look at the benefits of mentoring, plus some of the barriers to becoming a mentor and how to overcome these.    

In 1938, Abraham Maslow visited the Siksika reservation in Canada to test his theories and found that many were contradicted. Here, Catherine Gray FSET highlights what he found, and the implications for the wider issue of decolonising the curriculum.

In this session, we discuss the stages, signs and symptoms of menopause, along with the impact, treatment and support options. We also touch on the impact in the workplace and how employers can help.