Opinion Learning & Teaching

Reassessing the essay: Relevance, realism, and resilience in the age of AI

Given how much HE is changing with more focus on vocational relevance, widening participation, and technological disruption, is the traditional essay still pulling its weight?

30th October 2025
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Apprenticeships Training Providers consultation: our response

5th September 2016

On the 12th of August the Skills Funding Agency put out a number of surveys on apprenticeships. The deadline was a less-than-generous three weeks, over a period when many people are on a summer break. One of the proposals is to replace the Register of Training Organisations (RoTO) with a Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP). There are many sensible proposals, but we have suggested that institutions already on the RoTO to be automatically transferred to the RoATP, and for institutions regulated by either QAA or Ofsted to be exempt from the requirement for annual registration.

You can read our full response here.