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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By the year 2025, according to the World Economic Forum, 44% of the skills that employees need to perform their roles will have changed, and…
Work trends have rapidly changed across the world, post-pandemic. How and where people choose to work now or in the future is and will be…
On 29 November 2022, the Office for National Statistics announced that it had reclassified further education and sixth form college corporations, and their subsidiaries, into…
What are soft skills? In both our career and personal lives, progression relies on the development of soft skills: those human attributes that empower communication…
A new report by education think tank EDSK titled ‘No Train, No Gain’, found that nearly half of apprentices (47%) do not complete their apprenticeship…
Sarah Fearnley, Subject Specialist in Media, Broadcast and Production at NCFE, explains how work placements could be fundamental to the continued success of the UK’s…
In her brilliant book, ‘The Lightmakers’ Manifesto’, social activist Karen Walrond talks about listening out for the “whispers”. The premise of the book is how…
‘Inspiring learners, changing lives and making a difference’ – is the key motivation for why you work in the Further Education (FE) and Training sector.…
As the UK officially passes into recession and we prepare ourselves for a Christmas that looks likely to be characterised by soaring energy bills and…
What’s in a name? ‘Apprentice’ conjures up an image of a young worker, learning on the job. But take away the name and what we…
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