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Can They Actually do the Job? Why Knowledge was Only Ever Part of the Story

By Vanessa Aradia

While the headlines this year have gone to pathways and funding, the deepest apprenticeship reform is happening in a corner of the system most commentary...

Palvinder Singh

Where Is the Love? A start-of-term challenge to Further Education

By Kirklees College

Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...

Claire Bennison

Stop Asking Young People to fit one Route, Start Designing Routes that fit more Young People

By AAT

Almost a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). That’s a grim milestone that’s only marginally dropped in the latest quarter according to the ONS....

Adam Herbert

Understanding Local Employers to Address Local Skills Gaps

By Go Live Data

“Employers are far more likely to engage when they believe the organisation contacting them understands the commercial environment in which they operate.” We cannot solve...

Afzal Sayed Munna

University 365: Does the UK Need to Rethink the University Model?

By Afzal Sayed Munna

The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...

Sarah Atkinson

The Degree Apprenticeship System is Failing too Many Talented Young People

By Social Mobility Foundation

Higher and degree apprenticeships should be one of the most powerful drivers of social mobility. They offer the chance to earn while learning, gain real...

Jeanette Wheeler

What The NEET Crisis Can Teach Us About The Way We Hire

By MHR

The hiring and recruitment space is experiencing more change than ever before. Just under a million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are now out...

Sam Sims

We Need More than a New Post-16 Maths Resits Policy

By National Numeracy

Last week brought a welcome signal that the government is ready to rethink GCSE maths resits. Education Secretary Lucy Powell acknowledged that failing to get...

Jackie Bedford

What FE can teach HE about employability – and where both can do more

By Step Ahead

In a few short weeks, tens of thousands of young people fresh from receiving their A-level and BTEC results will head off to university to...

Nathan Whitbread, Founder of The Neurodivergent Coach

The Staffroom Tension No One’s Naming This September

By Nathan Whitbread

As August draws to a close, Further Education settles into a particular rhythm. INSET days land in the final week of the month, enrolment week...

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Claire Bennison

The Skills Challenge Facing Young People Today 

This year’s World Youth Skills Day theme, ‘Skills for a shared future’, is timely. Young people are entering a labour market being reshaped by artificial intelligence, automation and changing employer expectations. Yet too often we describe…

AAT July 28, 2026
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