HOUSING CRISIS EXACERBATING TEACHER RECRUITMENT PROBLEMS
Prioritised access to affordable housing for all key workers, including teachers, is urgently needed to help address the recruitment and retention crisis in education. The…
Month: September 2023
20 Years, 20 Voices: Paul Grainger
September 2023 marks the beginning of our 20th Anniversary celebrations at FE News! One way we’ll be celebrating is every day throughout September we will…
Innovation First: Embracing AI could save workers approximately 390 hours per year
Amid the ever-present fear that AI is replacing jobs, here, Ben Harris, UK MD at Visier, explains how organisations can help employees adapt to the…
Character: What Do You Do When Nobody Else Is In The Room?
Introduction As I watched the clip of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan reeling off a sweary tirade about how she hadn’t been sufficiently praised for “doing a good…
Attracting the next generation of manufacturing talent
The UK is the ninth largest manufacturing nation in the world as of 2022, providing 2.5 million jobs and an annual output of £183 billion.…
‘Running to Stand Still: Why decades of skills reform have failed to shift the dial on UK productivity & investment in training’
Federation of Awarding Bodies launch independent research report ‘Running to Stand Still: Why decades of skills reform have failed to shift the dial on UK…
Berkeley commits £100k of Apprenticeship Levy to SMEs
Berkeley Group has committed £100,000 of unallocated Apprenticeship Levy to enable London’s small construction businesses to take on more apprentices. The contribution is part of…
Office for Students underperforming amid looming crisis in higher education, says Lords Committee
A new House of Lords report published today (Wednesday 13 September), warns that the Office for Students (OfS) and Government are failing to act on…
New national approach to boosting apprenticeship take-up for young people wins £1 million backing from Salesforce
Salesforce is investing £1 million in The Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) to support anew national approach to identify and overcome barriers to apprenticeship take-up in England. Partnering…
College first to join pilot programmes helping women and children in Vietnam
STUDENTS are supporting communities in Vietnam following an inspiring visit to Southeast Asia. A group of 15 Health and Social Care learners from Coleg Cambria…
