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 Black Further Education Leadership Group (@FeLeadership) and Association of Colleges (@AoC_info) have a shared commitment to anti-racism in Further Education. The Black FE Leadership…
While studying at St Ivo Academy, Isabelle Parrish found herself lacking motivation in her GCSE English studies where the distraction of having friends in class…
Seven additional countries set to launch EY STEM App aimed at inspiring girls aged 13 to 18 to pursue STEM careers Initiative contributes to the…
Today’s statistics show a new record number of 1,247,000 job vacancies There are still 364,000 unemployed 18-24-year-olds in the UK The number of employees on…
USP College has been awarded an overall grading of Good from Ofsted following the inspection carried out between 9 and 12 November 2021. The report,…
Mechanical engineers make things work the way they are supposed to work, and they are inventors and innovators. They design and develop valuable technologies and…
In October, ahead of COP26, 140 universities backed a new set of commitments on climate action drawn up by Universities UK, including emissions reduction targets…
One of the key challenges for all employers in 2022 is the attraction and retention of talent. As we know the last couple of…
A new report by NFER warns that recent and anticipated changes to free school meal (FSM) eligibility will make it ‘almost impossible’ to track the…
Podcast on Academic Integrity Explores the New Threats Misconduct Poses Derek Newton (@DerekTNG), editor of The Cheat Sheet and a prolific writer on the issue…
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