Why trust, not technology, is emerging as the defining challenge as AI adoption accelerates across the sector The debate around artificial intelligence in assessment is...
The promise of an AI-driven transformation has never been more pronounced. But the real shift is not what AI can do; it is what humans...
While many businesses are focused on growth, the underlying challenge is often one of efficiency. Particularly in today’s climate, where budgets are tight and hiring...
A decade ago, digital skills were often seen as specialist knowledge. Today, they sit alongside English and maths as essential workplace literacies. Sustainability is now...
Before our sector rushes to introduce apprenticeship quality measures, it’s time we made better use of the strongest public indicator we already have. An industry...
The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction. At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged...
As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market. Having worked in the sector for over 20...
AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work. Increasingly, career development practitioners are using large language models to support guidance sessions and for resource creation...
The Skills White Paper claims colleges have been treated as "second rate" despite impressive results compared to others. Does our misaligned quality model and music...
There is a persistent and costly misunderstanding at the heart of workforce design in Further Education. We continue to measure people against roles that were...
The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) Labour Market Data has been released for December 2025 to February 2026. UK...
As apprenticeship assessment reform moves ahead at full speed, the sector stands at a pivotal moment. This is not the...
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 842 & 843: 18th April 2026. 957,000 NEETs vs 50,000 Apprenticeships: Is the Maths Adding...
A report from Prospects at Jisc and Institute of Student Employers (ISE) found more than one in ten students and early career professionals have...
Review into deaths of young people leaving the care system to be published later this year, helping inform further action...
A new government consultation has put a long-running debate in the education sector into the spotlight, is it time to...
Thousands across the UK set to benefit from re-opening of the historic Erasmus+ programme Enhanced learning and work opportunities back...
The Department for Education has today published funding guidance for the Experts at Hand and Local Authority SEND Transformation Fund,...
65,000 young people to train in key skills for growth industries through new Technical Excellence Colleges Backed by £175 million,...
NOCN Group is addressing a key challenge in skills reform: the lack of consistency, trust and interoperability in skills passporting....
The London School of Business and Finance (LSBF) has announced the launch of its Doctor of Business Administration (DBA), a new doctoral-level programme designed to…
We’re nearly five months into Australia’s landmark social media ban for under-16s, but cracks are already beginning to show. As the UK consultation continues and…
Students from East Sussex College have been crowned champions at the inaugural MOVE IT Championships, held at ExCeL London from 20th-22nd March. A group of…
(Clockwise from top left: Thiloshini, Sarwar, Steve, Pally, Helen and Iqbal) HRUC (Harrow, Richmond and Uxbridge Colleges) has announced the judges for this year’s National…
Waltham Forest College is delighted to announce the appointment of Jane Button, currently Principal of Southwark College, part of NCG, as its new Principal and…
HOBOKEN, N.J. – April 22, 2026 – Organisations facing persistent IT and AI skills gaps are increasingly turning to professional certification as a core workforce strategy and…
Instep has launched a new Analytical Leadership Programme. Mapped at Level 4, this forward-thinking programme has been specially designed to bridge the gap between analytics,…
Following the completion of her A Levels in 2024, ACT learner, Emily Thompson, decided she wanted to step into the world of work. She soon…
Why trust, not technology, is emerging as the defining challenge as AI adoption accelerates across the sector The debate around artificial intelligence in assessment is…
Safaraz Ali, founder of the Multicultural Apprenticeship & Skills Alliance, has spoken of his pride after receiving an MBE in recognition of his services to…
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