Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the UK economy, yet encouraging more of them to participate in apprenticeships remains a challenge. While much...
As we await Alan Milburn’s final review of young people and work, much of the debate has understandably focused on the scale of youth inactivity,...
A college can achieve a strong staff survey response rate and still fail to hear from some of the people it most needs to understand....
In a special feature for FE News to mark Get the Nation Learning Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members...
The Government’s Youth Guarantee is a welcome recognition that too many young people are being left behind. But if it is to succeed over the...
Picture a meeting that covers a change to timetables, a new adjustments plan, or a restructure proposal. Everyone nods. Actions are agreed. Then, over the...
There has been increased debate over youth participation in education and employment, and the scale of the challenge is undeniable. Nearly one million young people...
Every November the Department for Education counts the school workforce, and every year the headline is about teachers. This year's count, published last month, is...
Think about the young people leaving further education this year. One might be heading to university. Another is starting an apprenticeship. One is going straight...
The forthcoming Budget and the Milburn Review will bring further focus onto participation, opportunity and workforce development; apprenticeships are once again set to occupy a...
The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction. At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged…
City of Wolverhampton College is to benefit from a share of £175 million government funding after being announced as a Technical Excellence College (TEC) for advanced manufacturing. …
Our Level 3 BTEC National Health & Social Care learners took part in an immersive clinical lab work experience day at St George’s Hospital. Delivered…
The Education Training Collective (Etc.) is among those named a Clean Energy Technical Excellence College by the Department for Education today. One of just five…
YOUNG railway engineer Terrell Rose said persistence and passion in applying the skills he learnt at South Thames College Group helped him turn a work…
After a rigorous national bidding process, City College Plymouth has been successful as one of only five further education colleges across the UK to be…
A skilled apprentice from Rycotewood Furniture Centre based at City of Oxford College and University Centre has been selected to represent the UK at WorldSkills Shanghai 2026, known as the ‘Skills Olympics,’ where the world’s most…
They are the UK’s finest young professionals, the future of our workforce, now they stand ready to compete on the world stage in a contest…
Students at Northampton College are being shown the “devastating” impact of coercive or controlling behaviour, with a thought-provoking photography exhibition putting the effect it can…
As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market. Having worked in the sector for over 20…
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