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Andy Hillerby

What Might your Achievement Rate be Hiding?

By Andy Hillerby

Provider achievement rates receive significant attention from boards, governors and executive teams because they provide a straightforward indication of overall performance. They are often one...

Anthony Painter - ufi

Rewiring The State: A Moment Of Opportunity for The Future Of Skills

By Ufi VocTech Trust

Long-time observers of the UK skills system are prone to wearily observing that it is fragmented, complex and a victim of policy inconsistency over time....

Under Pressure: How Universities Can Best Prepare Students for What Comes Next

By Andrew

According to the Student Mental Health Study, 37% of first-year university students show moderate-to-severe anxiety or depression. This is nearly double the national rate for...

Jane Tidswell

Stats show FE’s Greatest Retention Opportunities are the Everyday Ones

By People Insight

The biggest challenges facing the further education workforce are no great secret.  Pay remains a big concern. Funding pressures limit what colleges can offer, while recruitment difficulties...

Luke Maynard

Counting the Cost: Why the UK’s Employability Skills Crisis Can No Longer Be Ignored

By City & Guilds

For years, employers have been telling us that something fundamental is missing in the labour market. Not technical skills, although those matter enormously, but the...

Nick Brook

Prevention not Rescue, Rethinking Youth Unemployment

By Futures For All

The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has topped one million for the first time since 2013. Alan Milburn's independent...

From Skills Intelligence to Career Action: What England Can Learn from Singapore

By Ladi Mohammed

Ladi Mohammed and Shani Wijemuni discuss how you turn better understanding of the skills an economy needs into better decisions by people, employers, and training...

Nathan Whitbread, Founder of The Neurodivergent Coach

Agreed Is Not Done: What Six Tribunal Cases Teach FE Leaders About Reasonable Adjustments

By Nathan Whitbread

A member of your team discloses a neurodivergent condition. You do the right thing. You agree to an adjustment. You understandably feel that the difficult...

Martin Cumella

Bringing Back Clever; Can we Seize the Opportunity for Bold Educational Reform?

By Martin Cumella

The new Burnham led government has only been in power for a couple of months but it has already done enough to indicate that it...

Lou Doyle SDN Mesma Main feature articl

Who’s Supposed to catch a Generation that Outsources its Thinking?

By SDN Mesma Group

I read three things recently that felt worth pulling together, if only to highlight them rather than fully make sense of them. The first was...

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Organisations in higher education ‘cold spots’ are losing out on growth as skills shortages force them to turn down work, new report warns  

Organisations in higher education ‘cold spots’ are losing out on growth as skills shortages force them to turn down work, new report warns  

As UK organisations seek to drive growth in a challenging economic climate, a new report from The Open University reveals how employers based in higher education (HE) cold spots are losing out due to a lack of skills and competition from…

Alex May 13, 2026
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