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 COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on education across the world. According to UNESCO, over 1.4 billion learners were affected during the global…
In this week’s show, Skills World Live presenter Tom Bewick, looks at the impact of the recent Budget and Spending Review for FE and skills. The Department for…
As a classroom teacher for 40 years, I can tell you some remarkable stories about kids who were transformed. It wasn’t just one kid…
The reality in 2021 is that many colleges have been hit hard by the COVID19 pandemic, the impact of underfunding and recruitment challenges. Recruitment and…
“You’ll die of old age, we’ll die of climate change” That was one of the slogans held up in 2019 by students who walked out of lessons to participate in the largest climate protest…
Nicolette Dryden @Be_HSDC is delivering the brand new Digital Production, Design and Development #TLevel. Here she discusses how she’s found her first year of teaching and…
The first lockdown saw most educational institutions transition to a virtual classroom overnight and the impact continued to reverberate. In fact, UNESCO reports that one year into…
It’s number confidence week and numeracy in the UK has once more hit the headlines. In his autumn spending review last week Rishi Sunak announced…
If you were asked to say what technologies you think have had the biggest impact on shaping our world, what would your answers be? Some…
Given the volumes of #EpAOs applying for @Ofqual recognition (first time or resubmission), I thought it may be helpful to highlight some of the areas…
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