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...
@BordersCollege prides itself on being a globally engaged institution and a recent international online visit to an orchard in Sweden by our Horticulturists highlighted this.…
Once we leave school or University behind, many people breathe a sigh of relief that the days of sitting exams, or finishing an assignment late…
Some teachers find TikTok in their classrooms unappealing. Because of its ability to be used as a distraction by students, teachers can find it distracting…
I first heard about the Millenium Development Goals [MDG] in 2013 as a ten-year-old girl, working in perhaps what some might have called an adult space.…
It was impossible to not be aware of #COP26 and the clear momentum gained across the world, as our leaders finally embraced the real climate…
The National Union of Students (@nusuk) for Scotland has issued a warning over “inadequate funding” for colleges and universities in the draft Scottish budget as…
A Blackburn teenager is on the road to success after being offered a place to study Law at the University of Oxford. Blackburn Sixth Form student Morgan Grimshaw, 18, has been given…
A “brilliantly resourceful team” has been highlighted as a major factor in Exeter-based IMP Software’s performance over the past 12 months, which has seen the…
How will the Institute (@IFATEched) support the DfE’s campaign to get more people teaching in FE? Teachers in the further education sector are to benefit…
A Loughborough College (@Lborocollege) student has been chosen as one of the faces of a new national government campaign to promote T Level qualifications. Paige…
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