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...
A student from NPTC Group of Colleges is making impressive progress on the national and international basketball stage after taking up the sport just over two years…
New UK report points to practical application of AI and critical human skills as the bridge between higher education and AI-enabled work Pearson and Amazon…
FE leaders are not short of priorities. Funding pressures, curriculum reform, skills gaps, and meeting diverse learner needs all demand attention, so the instinct can…
UK employees took an average of 9.4 days of sickness absence last year, according to the CIPD. That’s up from 7.8 days in 2023 and…
Across the country, clean energy projects are falling behind schedule. Sometimes it’s planning disputes. Other times, it’s budget pressures. But the challenge that often goes…
A business improvement programme delivered by the University of Salford’s Centre for Sustainable Innovation (CSI) has helped operational leaders at Mettler-Toledo Safeline Ltd achieve a…
Education providers and safeguarding professionals from across Greater Manchester came together for the region’s first ever safeguarding conference, marking a significant step forward in protecting…
Wiltshire College & University Centre is helping to address the growing demand for digital skills with a range of Higher Education courses designed to prepare…
By Lisa Mytton, Strategic Director of the National Training Federation for Wales (NTFW) The new Deputy Minister for Skills and Tertiary Education, Cefin Campbell, has…
Part Three of three on children, social media and the ban. The first piece asked how we arrived here. The second asked what we should…
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