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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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In 1968 sanitation workers across New York City went on strike. Frustrated by the precariousness of their employment terms and stagnating level of take-home pay,…
When I was contemplating applying to become a college principal I was haunted by the kind of person I thought I needed to be: “Strong-willed,…
Universities need to adapt to changing patterns of work Universities and further education colleges, from both public and private sectors, make the central contribution to…
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Be #agile or be at risk Agility has always been an important mindset but we now find ourselves in the position where it is…
For #InternationalNursesDay2020 today (12 May) Alison Kilduff, Head of #MentalHealth #Nursing @DerbyUni highlights the acute shortage of nurses working with people with psychological conditions and learning disabilities,…
The Colour of Courage Courage, this has been a word I have examined over the past few weeks and continue to explore on both a…
Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy This series of articles is taken from the research monograph, Further Education, Professional and Occupational Pedagogy: Knowledge and Experiences…
I keep reading about the death of adult learning. But I don’t believe it! It started with the Learning and Work Institute’s adult participation survey…
Will #virtual learning go viral after the pandemic passes? The further education industry has been through a period of radical change in the last few…
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