AoC Blog

The latest peer learning activity for the Erasmus+ EXPECT project (Exchange of Practices in Education for Climate Targets) took place in Riga, Latvia...

The need to act on climate change has never been more important. Leading scientists state that the world is currently on track to warm more than 3...

It has been an exhilarating year and a great privilege to have worked with ETF and AoC in 2021 as Director for Diversity. Stimulating, challenging...

The FE curriculum has been criticised for being excessively narrow and instrumental and funding constraints have limited colleges’ ability to provide...

Whenever I speak with colleagues at our colleges, one word is always mentioned - resilience. The resilience of Access to Higher Education students...

Students spend a lot of time writing. Many of their tasks and assessments require it but it is generally fairly constrained in its form and content...

This year’s AoC Annual Conference on Tuesday 16 and Wednesday 17 November in Birmingham is an unmissable event for all college leaders and governors...

For a richer student experience.png Students’ experience of college is so much more than just the courses they study. Colleges provide a hugely...

Research and evidence have always been right at the heart of the Association of College’s work. They have had to be. To lobby government and other...

As we move into the new term, I have been taking stock reflecting on EDI and the FE journey to date, and the conclusion is that although the sector...