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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International Women’s Day was created as a rallying cry for everyone to do more in accelerating women’s equality. It has always been critical, but more…
Skills and employment should go hand in hand. When making decisions on what steps need to be taken to boost employment, we should be looking…
There comes a point on any start-up journey when you need to tap into a knowledge stream that you might not have within the business,…
It is 111 years since the first International Women’s Day was marked by over a million people in Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland. Now a…
Motivated, committed and productive employees are the key to organisational success. So how can employers ensure that they are creating an environment where staff can…
A chief aim of the Government’s Skills and Post-16 Education Bill is to expand the roster of technical qualifications available to learners in a way…
Interview by Justine Head Chief Examiner for Fashion Business and Retail at UAL Awarding Body, with Nina Stevenson, Education for Sustainability Leader for Centre for…
Last month, the much awaited Levelling Up report was unveiled, outlining policies to help ‘put an end to the geographical inequality which is such a…
The government’s decision announced last week not to undertake any reform of the higher education (HE) admissions system is not a surprise. Once Gavin Williamson…
DfE have launched a consultation (2 March) seeking views on plans to reform post-16 qualifications at Level 2, Neil Sambrook believes these qualification are an…
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