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...
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....
Businesses must ‘walk the walk and not just talk the talk’ with how they support workers’ mental health challenges, or will pay the price in…
Barnsley College was recognised as Outstanding by Ofsted at its inspection in March 2022, making it the first FE college in Yorkshire to achieve this…
Trinity Business School has unveiled its new strategy, formally committing to the mission of ‘transforming business for good’ and becoming net carbon neutral by 2030.…
In a historical achievement for humankind almost 75 years ago, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights clearly recognized education as a basic human right. Although…
Music is like physical exercise: it’s for all ages and for all people. And like physical exercise, music making has the ability to bring people…
As the DfE funded national Advanced Practitioners Programme (#APConnect) comes to an end after four years, I’ve been looking back at how different FE was,…
The government’s failure to clamp down on insecure, low-paid work is costing the Treasury £10 billion a year, a new TUC report has warned today…
University leaders are warning that proposed reforms to post 18 education and funding in England would turn back the clock on social mobility while limiting…
NUS has warned the Government that their proposed changes to higher education will make it harder for students to go to university. In their response…
The Welsh Government has formally removed the Infection Control Framework for Higher and Further Education institutions from today. The change will bring higher and further…
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