The SEND Transition Collective, convened by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) in partnership with FE News, brought together senior practitioners, policy advisors, and FE...
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Dean Blewitt, Senior Innovation and Investments Manager at the awarding organisations NCFE, explains why assessment must continue to keep pace with sector reforms if learners are to achieve the outcomes...
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University Mental Health Day provided a chance to reflect on a turbulent few years for higher education students. Whilst workplace changes such as furloughs and…
Digital poverty, defined as the inability to interact with the online world fully, when, where, and how an individual needs to, affects over 9 million…
News of changes to the student loans system in the UK from 2023 comes at just the time when Year 12 students are beginning to…
Last year, record levels of young people were accepted into university, surpassing previous figures. With the number of students rising, and over 150 higher education…
Trust in government is at an all-time low, with a recent survey from Edelman UK finding that almost half of adults (48%) view the government…
It’s been just over two weeks since the Chancellor’s Spring Statement, so now is a good opportunity to reflect on what this means for apprenticeships.…
The UK government recently revamped their Government Science & Engineering (GSE) Strategy (July 2021), this aspires to ensure that every aspect of government is supported…
For far too long in the UK, there has been undue focus on getting young people from school to university, and a collective failure to…
In the last couple of years, with the support of the Black Leadership Group, I have come to realise that embedding anti-racism must be active…
I can always remember one of the incidences of intimate partner violence or domestic abuse that I experienced that was related to the workplace. I…
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