Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how people live and work - and recruitment is no exception. The widespread adoption of platforms like ChatGPT has led...
How to Ask Well is emerging as a critical leadership competency across Further Education. As FE teams navigate heavy workloads, pressure to deliver outcomes, and...
On 2 December 2025, Ministers Shane Reti and Penny Simmonds released New Zealand's new Tertiary Education Strategy for 2025-2030. In this fourth article in my...
Apprenticeship Governing Boards: What does 2026 hold? I've spent many years sitting on or advising the boards and committees of independent training providers, employer providers...
I'm incredibly proud to share that I've now completed my Level 7 Senior Leadership apprenticeship at The University of Manchester: Alliance Manchester Business School – graduating with a...
The Education and Training Foundation’s recent Achieving Social Value in Further Education and Skills report puts into words something many of us working in apprenticeships...
New research reveals that employers in England face substantially higher costs of training apprentices compared with their counterparts in Germany and Austria. If the employer costs are so high, will this stand...
What a whirlwind 2025 has been for anyone working in skills policy. In addition to the significant changes to apprenticeships, we’ve seen a renewed focus...
In my first two articles of this series, I explored the history of New Zealand's vocational education system and the announcement of the 2026 reforms....
AI literacy is often framed as a specialist skill: something required only in particular sectors, or by those who actively use artificial intelligence as part...
The registrations for SkillBuild, the UK’s largest and longest-running multi-trade skills competition, delivered by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB), are now open. SkillBuild invites the UK’s top construction trainee talent,…
New research reveals that employers in England face substantially higher costs of training apprentices compared with their counterparts in Germany and Austria. If the employer costs are so high, will this stand…
What a whirlwind 2025 has been for anyone working in skills policy. In addition to the significant changes to apprenticeships, we’ve seen a renewed focus…
The FE and Skills 2026 New Year’s Honours List has been announced, including a couple of ‘Hullraisers’, Saf Ali for his amazing work on diversity…
Hull College Executive Director of Digital Transformation, Deb Millar, has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the British Empire) in the New Year’s Honours List,…
The Principal and Chief Executive of Hull College, Debra Gray, has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the…
In my first two articles of this series, I explored the history of New Zealand’s vocational education system and the announcement of the 2026 reforms.…
AI literacy is often framed as a specialist skill: something required only in particular sectors, or by those who actively use artificial intelligence as part…
As we know, education has always been about people and delivered well, it should evoke curiosity, aspiration and opportunity among its students. Yet the way…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 828: 20th December 2025. Last Soundbite of 2025: Mayors, Milburn and Major Welfare Reform This is the weekly e-newsletter and…
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