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...
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) and Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 have awarded three new Technical Teaching Fellowships for the 2022/23 academic…
ChatterStars, designed to improve vocabulary among children, has recently received an investment from business accelerator, TwinklHive. Good vocabulary is crucial to everyone’s development. It helps…
Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week 2022 (7 – 13 February 2022), ACCA UK (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is urging communities to get behind…
Trolling we need to call it what it is – bullying. We’ve nearly all experienced bullying in some form or another in our lives.…
Young people have returned to work rapidly, with unemployment now lower than pre-pandemic levels, but problems persist, with one-in-three 18-34-year-olds returning to atypical, often insecure…
If there is one headline that is guaranteed to get the old blood racing, it is the criticism that education isn’t preparing young people for…
The Government has announced the student loan repayment threshold will be frozen This means a graduate earning £30,000 will pay £113 more towards their student…
As the DWP announces its Way to Work campaign – its first major employability push for 2022 – the headlines herald half a million people…
Dean of Higher Education at University Centre Leeds, Janet Faulkner A social mobility champion will be one of the key speakers when University Centre Leeds…
Kortext, the leading student learning content and engagement platform, has partnered with Jisc, the UK’s digital body for education and research, to provide 10,000 free…
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