Economic inactivity linked to long-term health conditions has now reached 2.8 million people in the UK, costing the country an estimated £212 billion per year...
FE leaders are not short of priorities. Funding pressures, curriculum reform, skills gaps, and meeting diverse learner needs all demand attention, so the instinct can...
Across the country, clean energy projects are falling behind schedule. Sometimes it’s planning disputes. Other times, it’s budget pressures. But the challenge that often goes...
Part Three of three on children, social media and the ban. The first piece asked how we arrived here. The second asked what we should...
As AI adoption outpaces the systems meant to recognise it, the question for the sector is not how to teach AI, but how to certify...
There is a phrase that gets used a lot in education technology right now, and it rarely means what people think it means. "AI-powered" has...
Burnham’s push for No 10 North and a devolved 14–19 offer promises new routes for young people; whether the MBacc becomes the model is now...
The longer I spend working as an independent governance, risk and compliance consultant, the more I find myself thinking that many organisations aren't actually managing...
We know that attendance remains one of the most closely monitored metrics in education. Still, for those working across further education, inclusion, and youth participation,...
From the end of 2023, until the beginning of 2025, I was leading a piece of research titled Appreciating and Supporting Neurodiversity for the New...
Exclusive thought leadership articles written peer to peer by leading experts about the future of education and the future of work. Experts writing op’ed and thought leadership articles on apprenticeships, skills and employability.
I was one of the lockdown entrepreneurs. I started my business – a skills and corporate training provider – with a mission to give the best…
#FEReform – If A-level results day has taught us anything this year, it’s that education and fairness matter to young people. Of course, nobody wants to…
The future for FE and 5 ways to fully realise the PM’s “Lifetime Skills Guarantee” vision In Tuesday’s speech from Exeter College, Prime Minister Boris…
Five ‘big ideas’ which are vital to ensure the UK skills sector is able to play the critical role it should in post Covid19 recovery …
The rising challenges of life after the pandemic Talk about automation and technological disruptions feels overshadowed. We now have a more immediate challenge to tackle:…
There is now a pressing need to flex the ability of the National Careers Service providers across England to work with those who become a…
The #FutureofApprenitceships after COVID-19 Covid-19 has turned the world on its head. When lockdown was first announced, colleges, training providers and universities closed their doors…
Testing out the #apprenticeship funding model @IfATechEd Anna West, deputy director for approvals and funding at the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (the Institute),…
The #FutureofApprenticeships post-COVID-19 COVID-19 has raised significant challenges for young people seeking to enter the job market. In the UK for example a total of 543,000…
Covid-19 has been a body blow to many companies around the world, not least in the UK. The economy shed almost three-quarters of a million…
Please confirm you want to block this member.
You will no longer be able to:
Please allow a few minutes for this process to complete.
