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...
More than a third of A-level students are not accessing careers support despite links to greater confidence about their future, reveals new data. As…
DSW & Co Ltd, based in Doncaster, and a leading provider of assessment, awarding and commercial learning services, is pleased to announce the successful completion of a management buyout (MBO)…
Young people who are not in education, employment or training at 16 or 17 have a 71% chance of being NEET again in at least…
On Tuesday last week, the Prime Minister announced plans to put technical education on an equal footing with academic study. There was more focus on…
In the first three months of 2026, the number of young people in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEETs) passed…
Andy Burnham’s first speech as Prime Minister included a commitment to help more young people into work by changing the education system and providing greater…
Northampton College is set to transform the way it trains the next generation of skilled construction professionals after securing significant government investment to create industry-leading…
Forty years is a long time in any industry. In construction, where technologies, regulations and workforce expectations have changed dramatically over the decades, it’s even…
The recent FE News special feature for Youth Employment Week rightly celebrated the employers who are working hard to open doors for young people, showcasing…
A former East Sussex College student has returned to lead building work on one of the college’s major new developments at Ore Valley in Hastings.…
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