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...
#CareerGuidanceGuarantee – Kieran Gordon @theCDI Hear from Kieran Gordon, MBE, Executive Director, Careers England on the Career Guidance Guarantee.
Mark Solomons, CEO of School Wellbeing Accelerator, a highly acclaimed wellbeing expert, with over 12 years’ experience developing leadership and culture in UK schools and…
The First Minister has announced the appointment of Rocio Cifuentes as the new Children’s Commissioner for Wales. Ms Cifuentes will take up the position in…
The AA today launches a Driver Academy to help train apprentices to become recovery patrols at a time when there is an estimated 100,0001 HGV…
Starting a new business isn’t easy even in the best of times. In a turbulent economy, it can be downright intimidating. That’s actually a good…
Commenting on #EthnicityPayGapDay (8th Jan 2022), Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT, said: “We’ve seen school leadership pay eroded for everyone over…
As universities reopen following the Christmas break, Universities Minister Michelle Donelan has been looking at the things she wishes she knew before she started university.…
New City College student Ella Payne sprung into action when she witnessed an elderly man have a fall in the street. Ella, 17, who is…
Background By default all personal data will be accessed via the Office for National Statistics Secure Research Service (ONS SRS). However, where the SRS is…
A new collaboration between Coventry University (@covcampus) and The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (@CIMA_News) is offering its members a fast track to a master’s qualification. The…
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