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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...
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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…
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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…
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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…
There is an undeniable skills shortage across the construction sector that’s been growing for decades and is felt across all four of the main types…
The government’s long-awaited response to the Augar report contained some good and bad news for social mobility. Lifelong Loan Entitlement On the upside, the Lifelong…
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