Long-time observers of the UK skills system are prone to wearily observing that it is fragmented, complex and a victim of policy inconsistency over time....
According to the Student Mental Health Study, 37% of first-year university students show moderate-to-severe anxiety or depression. This is nearly double the national rate for...
The biggest challenges facing the further education workforce are no great secret. Pay remains a big concern. Funding pressures limit what colleges can offer, while recruitment difficulties...
For years, employers have been telling us that something fundamental is missing in the labour market. Not technical skills, although those matter enormously, but the...
The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has topped one million for the first time since 2013. Alan Milburn's independent...
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A member of your team discloses a neurodivergent condition. You do the right thing. You agree to an adjustment. You understandably feel that the difficult...
The new Burnham led government has only been in power for a couple of months but it has already done enough to indicate that it...
I read three things recently that felt worth pulling together, if only to highlight them rather than fully make sense of them. The first was...
V Levels could offer something the post-16 system badly needs: greater flexibility for young people who want vocational learning without having to specialise as early...
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Further Education can help Londoners to access opportunities in the city, but decades of underfunding have weakened London’s vocational and adult training offer. Now, in…
In recent years, I feel there has been a shift happening, a kind of evolution if you will, a transformation of the traditional role of…
I’m absolutely delighted at the strides the FE sector has made with e-Assessment since my 2007 FE News article. No matter that C-19 is an…
Over the last 2-3 months there has been a huge amount of effort by employers, #EpAOs, External Quality Assurance (#EQA) providers and the Institute for…
Last week, Boris Johnson told the nation that young people “should be guaranteed an apprenticeship” as part of the country’s recovery from Covid-19. The idea…
The COVID-19 pandemic has sent financial shockwaves through much of the UK economy, including its further education (FE) sector. The UK’s system of FE colleges…
As many students and colleges look forward to returning to face-to-face teaching, we need to take stock and prepare ourselves for the possibility of further…
Bag packed, lunch snacks fully stocked, computer screen lowered. Since lockdown measures were first implemented by the UK government in response to the coronavirus outbreak,…
The Covid-19 pandemic has affected everyone in the world and has forced every aspect of life to be completely rethought and whilst it will be…
I recently read an article in FE News titled ‘How Education Technology Works for Every Learning Style’ and followed a few of the threads on…
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