Offender Learning Reform and the Importance of Local Labour Market Insight
With OLASS 5 set to kick off in Q1 of 2018, education and training providers involved in offender learning will shortly be looking to write…
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T-Levels and Student Engagement: a Win-Win-Win Situation
Although the Government’s decision to delay introducing the first T-levels will have brought a something of a sigh of relief among many in the sector,…
Employability Day 2017: An Overview of Britain’s Disabled Workforce
In just a few months from now, the Government will be launching its new welfare-to-work scheme, the Work and Health Programme. The scheme is intended…
Getting to Grips with the Challenge of T-Level Work Placements
Since the beginning of the year, we’ve been doing a lot of work around T-Levels, much of which has focused on demonstrating how the routes…
How Careers Information can Direct People to the Right Training and Redirect Them to Better Career Options
I wrote recently about the danger of careers information getting lost in the seemingly never ending changes being imposed upon colleges. In the conclusion to…
Why Careers Information is an Indispensable Part of Your College’s Overall Mission
Every organisation that is faced with upheaval will have a tendency to get bogged down in dealing with the changes, so much so that they…
The Answer to “Superficial” Area Reviews: The Common Language of Data
In a recent article for TES, Roger Brown, emeritus professor of higher education policy at Liverpool Hope University and currently chair of Barton Peveril Sixth…
Why Further Education and Schools Must Collaborate More in the Future
I was recently invited by City & Guilds to take part in a panel discussion at The Telegraph Festival of Education, held at Wellington College…
Taking the Gobbledygook Out of Careers Advice
A recent report by the House of Lords social mobility committee has claimed that young people who don’t go to university are “overlooked and left…
Effective curriculum rationalisation
We could probably all think of instances where organisations we’ve read about, heard about or even worked for have undergone a period of rationalisation to…