The most important word in apprenticeships is not achievement. That is not about diminishing the importance of completion or success. Achievement matters. It signals that...
In the second part of our special feature for FE News to mark Youth Employment Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings...
There is growing evidence that sustainability is moving from a specialist function into mainstream business operations Employers are increasingly seeking professionals who combine technical business...
This is Part Two of three on children, social media and the ban. The government is introducing legislation to bar children from the platforms. It...
When Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham walks into Number 10- be that Downing Street or the ‘Number 10 of the north’ in Manchester- what should his...
The idea that a career in research is becoming obsolete is easy to understand. It is also wrong, but not for the reasons you might expect. Behind the debate about research careers lies a more...
It’s Youth Employment Week, and in a special feature for FE News, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members Adrian Wookey,...
Aspiring marketers are set to enter the industry at a challenging, but exciting time. Competition for jobs may only become greater, with the recent Milburn...
Picture this. A member of your teaching staff is three weeks into a formal performance improvement process. Observations have been graded as requiring improvement. You...
This is Part One of three on the under-sixteen social media ban: how we got here, whether it is right and what comes next. On...
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The UK labour market may be near a turning point. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics showed signs of softness, with the…
When I started working with joy as a practice principle, a few years ago now, it was very much not the Marie Kondo type of…
As organisations mark 50 years of Pride, Dan Howard, Operations Director at the educational charity and leader in vocational and technical learning NCFE, reflects on…
The UK government has committed to deliver a ‘Lifetime Skills Guarantee’ – a commitment to provide every adult with the training and education they need…
Later this month at our National Conference, we will be launching ‘Hiding the Join’, our report into joining up employability and skills services which we…
This week NCFE has joined forces with the pioneering Good for Me Good for FE (GfMGfFE) campaign. In doing this, we’re providing funding for a pilot programme to…
Figures published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS) show there has been ‘no significant change or growth’ in the number of green jobs in…
In the run up to National Employability Day, Colin Geering, Group Business Development Director for Novus, discusses the impact of employment focussed training on reducing…
Setting up my argument There is [also] a perception, deriving from centuries of social stratification and selectivity in the status and provision of different kinds…
The “most important Employability Day ever” on 17 June 2022 is a crucial opportunity for the employment support sector to flex its muscles. Getting back…
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