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The debate about whether AI belongs in education is rapidly becoming redundant. The more important question is what education does now that AI is already...
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....
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The core principle of coaching (as opposed to counselling) is empowering individuals or groups to look ahead to the future and make positive change. In…
The dynamics of the apprenticeship training sector are changing. Investors are paying attention to a set of factors that go beyond what mattered a few years…
Most young people don’t know what they want to do when they leave school. Some might have an inkling, and others might have a plan sketched…
For too long, College or University, vocational or academic, skills or degrees have been seen as competing alternatives for most post-16 learners that in reality…
In the world of work, skills are the number one currency. For as long as humans have worked, and whatever industry they may have worked…
On July 1st and 2nd the Edge Foundation (@ukEdge) and Education and Employers (@Edu_Employers) hosted the 6th International Conference on Employer Engagement. The theme of the event, ‘Preparing Young…
Recently, in a letter to the government, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), Trades Union Congress (TUC) and Equality and Human Rights Commission called for…
According to 2019 figures from the UK Government, there are now just over a million women (1,019,400) in the #STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics)…
One of the biggest impacts the pandemic has had on education is to highlight the lack of familiarity with technology for both teachers and students…
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