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...
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Late last year, the Treasury announced that it will increase the apprentice minimum wage by a whopping 9.7% in April 2023. However, with the national…
The challenge for independent training providers to enter apprentices into the WorldSkills UK competitions has not been an easy one. Private capital investment and considerable…
The Education and Training Foundation (ETF) and Change Agents UK recently undertook a short piece of research for the Universities Partnership in Leicestershire, learning a…
While the latest research from the 2022 Lloyds Bank Consumer Digital Index suggests that 99% of people in the UK now make use of the…
If you were to compare the classroom of today with one from the 1800s, the core concepts would not be so different. Children still sit…
Distilling practitioners’ expertise from this year’s ERSA Conference, CEO Elizabeth Taylor reflects on the sector’s skill in helping people tread the right path toward work.…
Workforce demographics are changing. As the average lifespan for humans continues to increase, so does the typical retirement age. Consequently, the age diversity in the…
The end of the year always marks a time for reflection. We’ve faced into a number of challenges in 2022, not just for the food…
82% of respondents to the Education and Training Foundation’s (ETF) Membership Matters research said that inspiring learners, changing lives and making a difference was what…
Having only opened to members earlier this month, the National Centre for Family Learning already has more than 180 professionals and practitioners signed up who…
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