100,000 placements is a welcome start. Who helps young people get to day one? In thirty-five years working in careers guidance, I have watched a...
Term has started, and colleges are still settling timetables and filling gaps in delivery. It's a good moment to look at who's teaching under subcontracted...
Adult learners are already investing in new careers; policy should turn that commitment into a connected journey from entry-level competence to higher technical progression. The...
The funded management ladder has gone. Team Leader at Level 3, Operations Manager at Level 5, Chartered Manager at Level 6, Coaching Professional, Improvement Practitioner,...
While the headlines this year have gone to pathways and funding, the deepest apprenticeship reform is happening in a corner of the system most commentary...
Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...
Almost a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). That’s a grim milestone that’s only marginally dropped in the latest quarter according to the ONS....
“Employers are far more likely to engage when they believe the organisation contacting them understands the commercial environment in which they operate.” We cannot solve...
The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...
Higher and degree apprenticeships should be one of the most powerful drivers of social mobility. They offer the chance to earn while learning, gain real...
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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…
In his Spring Statement the Chancellor of the Exchequer the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP announced that: “The government will consider whether further intervention is…
Being able to execute brilliantly in new and unexpected ways within talent management is often the difference between success and failure. According to Fosway’s Skill…
During National Careers Week last month, The Student<>Employer Network launched a report, ‘Connecting employers to students: a practical guide for engaging young people with the world…
At UA92, we’re implementing a deliberately different approach in everything we do in order to play our part in levelling-up; inspiring the next generation and…
“Higher education is supposed to provide society with a reliable workforce. Today, it is failing to fulfil that basic function,” according to entrepreneur and former…
In a project co-ordinated by The Young Foundation and driven by investment from The National Lottery Community Fund, a new Youth-led Peer Research Network of…
Ofsted is terribly bad for the quality of Further Education. Half of the problem is that it makes recommendations. The other half is that despite…
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