Young people not in education, employment or training have often missed out on opportunities to develop essential employment skills. The Nuffield Foundation has launched a...
100,000 placements is a welcome start. Who helps young people get to day one? In thirty-five years working in careers guidance, I have watched a...
Term has started, and colleges are still settling timetables and filling gaps in delivery. It's a good moment to look at who's teaching under subcontracted...
Adult learners are already investing in new careers; policy should turn that commitment into a connected journey from entry-level competence to higher technical progression. The...
The funded management ladder has gone. Team Leader at Level 3, Operations Manager at Level 5, Chartered Manager at Level 6, Coaching Professional, Improvement Practitioner,...
While the headlines this year have gone to pathways and funding, the deepest apprenticeship reform is happening in a corner of the system most commentary...
Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...
Almost a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). That’s a grim milestone that’s only marginally dropped in the latest quarter according to the ONS....
“Employers are far more likely to engage when they believe the organisation contacting them understands the commercial environment in which they operate.” We cannot solve...
The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...
Digital transformation in higher education should focus on student outcomes, not the technology that underpins it. With a focus on the student experience, digital transformation…
As we move into the second year of our work at the Foundation for Education Development (FED) and following the launch of the FED National Education…
A scholarship fund with the potential to change people’s lives is open for applications. Now in its fifth year, The Disabled Veterans’ Scholarships Fund (DVSF)…
Stress and anxiety among exam students is higher than pre-pandemic, say most heads More than 80% of headteachers have reported that stress and anxiety among…
Higher earners are more fearful of moving or losing jobs than low-earners, due to worries about getting less pay and flexibility when they find new…
Entries are pouring in forthis year’s prestigious Apprenticeship Awards Cymru as the May 20 deadline fast approaches. Highlight of the year for apprentices, employers and…
Today, the Government announced its intention to introduce a “lifelong loan entitlement”, as part of the Higher Education Bill. The bill, will allow people a…
Public Services students at Burton and South Derbyshire College (BSDC) are set to undertake a Coast to Coast Challenge on the 11th–13th May, where they…
As the UK government and public sector seeks to ‘build back better’ from the Covid-19 pandemic, connectivity funding is revealed as the key to successful…
Today was the State Opening of Parliament, which begins the parliamentary year. The speech is usually delivered by the Queen, but the 96-year-old monarch has pulled…
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