From the end of 2023, until the beginning of 2025, I was leading a piece of research titled Appreciating and Supporting Neurodiversity for the New...
Further Education colleges are already driving innovation every day, yet their contribution remains largely invisible in national policy. Elaine Baxter explores why recognising, supporting and...
Last week, I joined representatives from Parliament, employers, business organisations, awarding bodies and the wider skills sector at the New Statesman Politics Live event to...
The most important word in apprenticeships is not achievement. That is not about diminishing the importance of completion or success. Achievement matters. It signals that...
In the second part of our special feature for FE News to mark Youth Employment Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings...
There is growing evidence that sustainability is moving from a specialist function into mainstream business operations Employers are increasingly seeking professionals who combine technical business...
This is Part Two of three on children, social media and the ban. The government is introducing legislation to bar children from the platforms. It...
When Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham walks into Number 10- be that Downing Street or the ‘Number 10 of the north’ in Manchester- what should his...
The idea that a career in research is becoming obsolete is easy to understand. It is also wrong, but not for the reasons you might expect. Behind the debate about research careers lies a more...
It’s Youth Employment Week, and in a special feature for FE News, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members Adrian Wookey,...
Telford College has won a top award in recognition of its efforts to engage adults across the West Midlands into learning. The college has been…
As thousands of new graduates prepare to enter the labour market, a YouGov survey for Hedd reveals a sharp rise in CV fraud, with employers warning that…
With thousands of graduates entering the job market this summer, new research from the Institute of Student Employers (ISE) highlights that UK entry-level employers remain firmly committed…
Eight Amazon leaders will become secondary school governors as part of a new strategic partnership with the Baking Dearing Educational Trust. Amazon and the England-based…
The GM Skills Awards 2025 took place on Thursday, 3rd of July at The Monastery Manchester, bringing together apprentices, employers, and support teams to celebrate outstanding achievements. The event…
Stoke-on-Trent has done it! The Big Centenary Tea Party has officially broken the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Cream Tea Party, bringing together…
BIEA’s 2025 STEM Competition highlights global student solutions to agriculture and food security in a changing climate Young innovators from around the world were celebrated…
Cambridge University Press & Assessment has made three decades’ worth of research into language testing freely available, reflecting its mission to increase global access to…
As Skills England sets out to reshape the national skills system, a key success factor will be the ability to identify and respond to region-specific…
The House of Lords Social Mobility Committee, which I have the privilege of chairing, is coming towards the end of its inquiry. It is therefore…
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