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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
V Levels could offer something the post-16 system badly needs: greater flexibility for young people who want vocational learning without having to specialise as early...
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 865: 19th September 2026. Do We Actually Know What Learners Need and Employers Want? This is the weekly e-newsletter and…
The UK’s leading financial and enterprise education charity, Young Enterprise, has announced that Baroness Amanda Sater will become Chair of the Board of Trustees from…
AAT has announced support for the Skills Compact, a landmark shared agreement between government, the Financial Services Skills Commission, and employers to close skills gaps.…
Open Study College co-founder and chairman Mark Rutter has been recognised with a prestigious Family Business Lifetime Achievement Award, celebrating his outstanding contribution to the…
North Devon College has teamed up with heating technology manufacturer Vaillant Group UK to open a new specialist heat pump training centre in Barnstaple, giving…
Camilia Miccolis takes on global commercial role after driving expansion across Benelux, the UK and Ireland, with regional revenue increasing by more than 100% under…
The latest figures show that 981,000 young people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training. The number has fallen below one…
The UK will need hundreds of thousands of new construction workers in the coming years to meet demand for housing, infrastructure and clean energy projects.…
The debate about whether AI belongs in education is rapidly becoming redundant. The more important question is what education does now that AI is already…
Hundreds of thousands more young people in disadvantaged communities will get the chance to join sports teams, learn an instrument, or take part in debating…
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