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Lindsey Poole

Green Skills Aren’t Optional. They’re The Next Functional Skills

By Lindsey Poole

A decade ago, digital skills were often seen as specialist knowledge. Today, they sit alongside English and maths as essential workplace literacies. Sustainability is now...

Harry Hobbs, Head of Business Intelligence at Baltic Apprenticeships

Before Introducing New Quality Metrics, We Must Make Better Use Of QAR

By Baltic Apprenticeships

Before our sector rushes to introduce apprenticeship quality measures, it’s time we made better use of the strongest public indicator we already have. An industry...

James Farr Exclusive

Ready To Work, Nowhere To Go: The UK’s Growing Youth Jobs Gap

By Rob Stewart

The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction.  At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged...

Richard Holliday

Looking Back At 20 Years Of Apprenticeships: What The Data (and people) Told Me 

By Gatsby Charitable Foundation

As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market.  Having worked in the sector for over 20...

Emily Tanner, Programme Head, Post-14 Education and Skills, Nuffield Foundation  

Why We Need Better Evidence to Inform the Development and Use of AI in Career Guidance for Young People

By Nuffield Foundation

AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work.  Increasingly, career development practitioners are using large language models to support guidance sessions and for resource creation...

ian pryce

Misaligned Means Much Maligned

By Ian Pryce CBE

The Skills White Paper claims colleges have been treated as "second rate" despite impressive results compared to others. Does our misaligned quality model and music...

Nathan Whitbread, Founder of The Neurodivergent Coach

Neurodiversity at Work: Stop Taking Formula One Talent to Tesco

By Nathan Whitbread

There is a persistent and costly misunderstanding at the heart of workforce design in Further Education. We continue to measure people against roles that were...

Paul Tully

Regulating on Ambiguity: Why FE Initial Teacher Training Needs Practitioner Research, Not Just New Rules

By FEThink - Smarter Education

The quality of initial teacher training (ITT) in further education (FE) is again under review, but this time with a sharper regulatory edge. From 2026,...

Nathan Flynn, Group Director: Quality and Standards at MK College Group.

What To Expect From The New Ofsted Initial Teacher Education Inspections

By Milton Keynes College

At Milton Keynes, we were the first FE College Group in the country to receive the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) inspection, and I’m delighted to...

Becoming a Plumber Will Not Save You If You Cannot Think

By Rose Luckin, EVR

Geoffrey Hinton and I have something in common. We both studied and worked in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence department at the University of...

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