In 2026 the job market feels uncertain for many people entering the workforce. The UK unemployment rate has risen to a near five-year high. At...
Rising youth unemployment highlights growing complexity for practitioners. This article explores how recent reforms, system challenges and frontline insight shape what’s needed to support young...
Skills shortages in construction are not a new problem. For at least ten years, we have been grappling with this issue, and the CITB is...
The need for a third post-16 Level 3 pathway, providing a middle ground between A Levels and T Levels, has long been clear. The dual-track...
Could you get a hot meal for £2.61? That’s what the government are expecting colleges to do by freezing the funding for free meals for the poorest students. The reality...
The Department for Education has now published more of its policy decisions that shape the future for technical qualifications at Level 3 and below in...
In this article, Dr Lucy Atkinson, Director of the Centre for Academic Persistence at Arden University, explores if, and how, providers can use gamification to...
As the workplace continues to evolve at pace, one thing is clear: our skills system needs to keep up. The government’s recent announcement of V...
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Vicki Stokes, Head of the School of Education at the University of Sunderland, has shared how she thinks the Government’s recently released Schools White Paper:...
An institute for women and girls has been praised by the government body Ofsted for its delivery of quality educational standards in helping to improve…
easyJet is set to donate hundreds of crew iPads to students in need following findings that one in five children are digitally excluded in the…
Youngsters get sessions from professionals who have links to Oscar winner Jordan Peele and Phillipe Gaulier who taught the likes of Emma Thompson and David…
If Episode One of Defunded, Not Derailed set the scene and explored the shifting post-16 landscape, the defunding of certain Level 3 qualifications, the rise…
A lecturer at @BordersCollege is helping to open up conversations about the menopause after publishing a new book designed to help men better understand and…
Waltham Forest College proudly hosted the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, Pat McFadden, for the national media launch of a landmark youth employment…
Unemployment holds at 5.2%. Regular pay growth hits a five-year low. Vacancies slip further below pre-pandemic levels. And in April, it gets more expensive to…
Endometriosis affects 1.5 million women and those assigned female at birth across the UK. Roughly one in 10 women of reproductive age is affected, making…
In this exclusive feature specially for Neurodiversity Celebration Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation talks to member organisations Mat Parker, Head of…
The government’s latest skills funding update may have caused some uncertainty for businesses that rely on apprenticeships to upskill their workforce. With 16 apprenticeship standards…
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