Young people not in education, employment or training have often missed out on opportunities to develop essential employment skills. The Nuffield Foundation has launched a...
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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‘The ideal education for the people of tomorrow will mould voracious learners. Children who want to understand the how and why of everything. Explorers, investigators,…
Education – that is to say the educational products and services that students pay for – is highly brand sensitive. It’s a feature that most…
Chris Mallet explains how the latest advances in virtual reality could be game-changers for teachers in FE colleges For those in education who do not…
Mark Solomons, CEO of School Wellbeing Accelerator, a highly acclaimed wellbeing expert, with over 12 years’ experience developing leadership and culture in UK schools and…
New Year is always an exciting time of promise. What might 2022 hold for you? The last couple of years have been challenging so we…
You’ll likely have heard the famous quote “culture eats strategy for breakfast” from Austrian-American management consultant and educator Peter Drucker. The implication from Drucker is…
In his 2015 paper, the MIT economist David Autor asked why, given the rapid technological advances of the 20th century and the apparently accelerating automation of…
In the academic year 2020 – 2021, 32,436 students attended alternative provision (AP) schooling in the UK. This figure has been steadily increasing since 2017,…
As we start a new year, many people will be feeling the financial pressure from the Christmas period. But for young people growing up in…
The past couple of years have seen educators navigate long-term lockdowns and remote learning at an overwhelming pace. To combat the impact on students, education…
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