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...
Fife College (@fifecollege) has started a partnership with Vegware (@vegware) in order to reduce the amount of waste produced on each of its campuses. From…
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today (31 Jan) launched a major new skills programme, which will offer free training courses to support Londoners into good jobs…
Association of Colleges (@AoC_info) in partnership with @NCFE is pleased to announce the first 11 scholars chosen to undertake funded research into areas of post-16…
Nearly 50,000 technicians have yet to complete their MOT Annual Assessment warns @The_IMI Flexible e-Learning MOT Training and Assessment package from the IMI is designed…
Ofsted inspectors have rated New City College as ‘Good’ saying that students ‘thrive in the supportive and friendly environment’ while ‘developing new knowledge, skills and…
The equivalent of a whole class of children in 758 schools across the country has not fully returned to lessons since the start of the Covid pandemic – and the problem may be getting worse, according…
Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic have impacted thousands of businesses over the past few years, but one industry that has been arguably more affected than…
FTSE 250 firm FDM Group (@FDMGroup) unveils its ‘levelling up’ agenda, with proposals to hire hundreds of new candidates from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds, offering…
In response to the Education Policy Institute’s (EPI) report calling for school groups to be assessed on a wider range of measures relating to pupil…
Basingstoke College of Technology (@bcot) is to hold the region’s largest apprenticeship event to help people find their career paths. The event on Monday 7…
Please confirm you want to block this member.
You will no longer be able to:
Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.
