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For too long, the national conversation around success has treated university as the default route into a professional career. Yet across the UK, thousands of...
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Recently, I visited PET-Xi in Coventry, and I left with a feeling I know all too well: admiration, frustration and a deep sense of déjà...
Practitioners, leaders, researchers and advocates gathered in London to do something the sector urgently needed: not just name the problem, but co-design the route out...
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Alan Milburn’s Young People and Work interim report should land as a national alarm bell. Nearly one million young people are now not in education,...
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The question is worth considering. These days people use the term “social media” to mean lots of different things. They also use the term differently…
I always get excited about #NationalApprenticeshipWeek – it’s a great idea and really helps keep workplace training at the fore. So often the ugly sister…
Opportunities The new Government sees boundless opportunities as the country emerges from its #Brexit pre-occupation. One of these has to be a new Apprenticeship strategy…
Jennifer Coupland started as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education @IFAteched last November. She reflects below on the joys of…
Utilising Training Providers to support Higher Education Apprenticeships, focusing primarily on the Certificate of Higher Education – Children, Young People and Families Apprenticeship Standard level…
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In the face of dwindling budgets, increasing student numbers, an unknown employment market and heightened competition, FE colleges are increasingly turning to technology to deliver…
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