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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...
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Ed Johnson, CEO and Founder of mentoring and career development platform PushFar, discusses how mentoring can help to ready students for the working world. Whilst…
Trolling we need to call it what it is – bullying. We’ve nearly all experienced bullying in some form or another in our lives.…
Under the Education Inspection Framework, there’s a framing question that sums up quality for learning providers to a single point: “What is it like to…
If there is one headline that is guaranteed to get the old blood racing, it is the criticism that education isn’t preparing young people for…
As the DWP announces its Way to Work campaign – its first major employability push for 2022 – the headlines herald half a million people…
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NCFE is starting the New Year with a focus on some of the bigger issues facing the education sector and society in 2022. To kick…
The last year certainly hasn’t come without its challenges, but we haven’t let these challenges throw us off course. We’ve strengthened our Early Careers programmes…
How we learn, how we think, what we dream of achieving – all are undergoing a huge overhaul During a virtual summit hosted by the…
A fluid labour market The recent pandemic has caused people to reassess their lives and we are seeing people move jobs in record numbers. In…
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