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...
Leeds Beckett University and Luminate Education Group are working together to increase opportunities and aspirations for students and support the future skills needs of the…
A GROUNDBREAKING higher education pathway is helping students turn their passion for gaming into careers in one of the world’s fastest-growing industries. Coleg Cambria has…
Construction students at Wiltshire College & University Centre gained a taste of working on a real construction project as they tackled a three-day skills competition…
The Engineering Construction Industry Training Board’s (ECITB) new-look ACE cards will incorporate an NFC chip as part of its drive to improve the industry’s card…
A widely used English language teaching framework has been updated for the AI age, introducing new focus areas such as AI literacy and wellbeing, alongside…
Five learners who work in the environmental and agricultural services sectors have graduated with Apprenticeships in Management delivered by one of the country’s leading work-based…
TV star and education consultant Baasit Siddiqui has been honoured for his contribution to communities and strengthening local partnerships across Derby and Derbyshire. The University of Derby graduate, who is best known for appearing on Channel…
As further and higher education providers face unprecedented pressure to protect learner credibility, some institutions are responding to generative AI by retreating to traditional, on-site…
ACT celebrated the premiere of its first ever documentary, with a screening at Cardiff’s Chapter Art Centre. Wales’ largest training provider welcomed representatives from the…
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,…
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