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,...
Aspiring marketers are set to enter the industry at a challenging, but exciting time. Competition for jobs may only become greater, with the recent Milburn...
Picture this. A member of your teaching staff is three weeks into a formal performance improvement process. Observations have been graded as requiring improvement. You...
Asbestos surveyors play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and compliance of buildings, particularly those constructed before the 1980s when asbestos was widely used…
I’m sure you would agree that change is happening in the vocational education sector – and in the world of skills and work generally –…
The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) has launched its Charter for Digital Inclusion and updated its National Delivery Plan (NDP), calling for affordable connectivity and wider access to…
Dr Mandy Crawford-Lee discusses the importance of a comprehensive skills policy that supports both university education and apprenticeship programs. She argues that cutting university funding…
Melanie Brown, Stakeholder Engagement Manager for The Skills Network, looks at how FE can play a key role in tackling sustainability issues this World Environment…
CHARITIES are bracing themselves to deal with a surging number of calls from children, teenagers and university students grappling with exam-stress. Between April 2023 and…
The University of Sunderland (@sunderlanduni) held it’s first third sector conference that saw over 50 charities from across the north-east meet for a series of…
@BordersCollege recently ran a six-week Train to Care course in partnership with NHS Borders, Scottish Borders Council (SBC) and the Department for Work and Pensions…
Careers Wales has announced an exciting update to its Future Jobs Wales resource, with the addition of essential regional job data. Future Jobs Wales, hosted…
Tim Slingsby discusses how the term “STEM” oversimplifies the complex skills needed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. To bridge the global skills gap, he…
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