Ensuring that the further education (FE) sector has a high-quality teaching workforce is critical to the government’s ambitions for the sector and its wider industrial...
One of the strangest things about the current AI conversation is how quickly people jump from “this tool improves efficiency” to “human judgement is now...
Further education colleges across the UK continue to demonstrate resilience and ingenuity in the face of sustained financial pressure. While funding remains constrained and costs...
The SEND Transition Collective, convened by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) in partnership with FE News, brought together senior practitioners, policy advisors, and FE...
The reform of technical education in England has reached a pivotal moment. With T Levels now established across the post-16 landscape, attention is turning to...
There’s a belief that AI will somehow fix educational marketing. That by automating outreach, refining targeting and increasing output, institutions will naturally see better engagement...
As devolution reshapes England’s skills system and the second iteration of LSIPs comes into focus, attention is rightly turning to how regional ambition becomes delivery. Suzanne Slater, Commercial...
When one in seven young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training (NEET) by the age of 23, this is not just a concerning statistic –...
In further education policy, “closing skills gaps” is often framed as a technical challenge with straightforward solutions: expand provision, add courses, increase qualification levels. It’s...
She did everything right. When she received her ADHD diagnosis in her early forties, she told her employer, followed the correct processes, and waited for...
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During the Andrew Marr Show on @BBC last weekend, whilst I was munching on my cereal, former Labour Leader Ed Miliband was challenged on the…
While a phased approach for students returning to school is in full swing, and normal attendance resuming from September, there is still a large emphasis…
#StandUpForSkills – Recovery and Resilience: Reskilling Our Way Back into Work It’s very apt that [this Recovery and Resilience report] comes on the back of the prime…
The class of 2020 are graduating at a time unlike any we have known. Although at this stage the true scale of the economic fallout…
This week Robert Halfon MP for Harlow presented his vision for delivering the apprenticeship guarantee at an event organised by the Edge Foundation and chaired…
Local labour markets have been affected in different ways by Coronavirus, calling for locally tailored recovery policies around employment and skills The last three weeks…
The current global plague – COVID-19 – has accelerated teaching and learning across all the education sectors. The acceleration towards forms of online deliveries requires consideration.…
Four months ago, telling a group of teachers that they had a week to completely alter their delivery to online could almost be dangerous, but…
Often forgotten, the Cinderella service end of education and yet such an opportunity waiting in the wings. For too many people adult education will inspire…
In June 2020 I carried out a short survey of EpAOs, asking what they would find most valuable from an EQA provider. The survey was…
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