Last week, I joined representatives from Parliament, employers, business organisations, awarding bodies and the wider skills sector at the New Statesman Politics Live event to...
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...
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One of the biggest issues facing the FE sector is the ability to attract and retain the employees that deliver the high-quality training provision learners…
There’s been a lot of debate in recent years about the value of apprenticeships. Historically viewed as a second-class educational attainment, significantly substandard to university…
According to the latest government figures, under-19s accounted for a little over a quarter (28%) of apprenticeship starts in 2021/22. The remaining three-quarters were at…
Taking place on 22 April each year, Earth Day shows support for environmental protection and helps to raise awareness of sustainable practices and solutions. Celebrated…
The SEND and Alternative Provision Green Paper was published at the end of March, promising to make the SEND system more inclusive and more financially…
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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…
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