It seems everyone in Greater Manchester has an Andy Burnham Story. Mine starts backstage at Parklife festival in 2017. I was fortunate enough to be...
Employers understand the need for skills. They experience recruitment pressures, changing technology and gaps in workforce capability directly. What many understand less clearly, is how...
The Breaking Barriers report is absolutely right to focus on building more bridges into work for young people and moving the debate away from cliff...
On Tuesday last week, the Prime Minister announced plans to put technical education on an equal footing with academic study. There was more focus on...
In the first three months of 2026, the number of young people in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEETs) passed...
The recent FE News special feature for Youth Employment Week rightly celebrated the employers who are working hard to open doors for young people, showcasing...
Lord Agnew, Chair of the House of Lords special inquiry Numeracy for Life Committee provides an update on the Committee’s year-long inquiry. The cross-party House of Lords Numeracy for Life...
September marks the three-year anniversary of the Green Changemakers programme and we have learned so much in that time. On this quiet morning in my...
It has been nine months since the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee, which I chaired, published its report ‘Social mobility: Local roots, lasting...
As budgets tighten and campus capacity shrinks, hybrid models offer a practical way to deliver exams at scale. As higher and further education institutions across...
In this article, Gavin Poole discusses the importance of incorporating AI into the education system. He acknowledges the rapid advancements in AI and the need…
Consequences of policy decisions are often unintended but they can be foreseen by those with experience of implementing them. Better still, we can use starting…
This article discusses how apprenticeships can help solve the skills gap in the manufacturing and construction industry, as well as the importance of flexible learning…
Digital investment platform, Wealthify, is today launching a groundbreaking campaign aimed at tackling low financial literacy levels in young people. Partnering with financial and enterprise…
Researchers across the UK should be empowered to move between industry and academia throughout their whole career to stimulate innovation and growth, according to senior…
A roundtable discussion hosted by GoHenry, the prepaid debit card and financial education app for kids aged 6-18, at the Welsh Parliament found that cross-party…
Durham University Business School has appointed Dr Ian Baggett, a prominent North East businessman and entrepreneur, to join its Departments of Finance, and Management and…
“Keep up the great work!” That was the message from West Yorkshire’s Deputy Mayor for Policing and Crime, Alison Lowe OBE, when Leeds City College…
A young County Antrim woman who had such a positive learning experience as a student at Northern Regional College is back at the College again…
Helen Foster has been appointed as the new head of Loughborough Grammar School, becoming the first female head of the all-boys school in its 530…
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