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...
There’s a gulf between where many NEET young people are and where employers need them to be so that they can thrive in a job. The UK must find ways to bridge that gulf -...
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,...
UK government and organisations are constantly discussing ongoing skills shortages and apprenticeships and employability, yet one of the biggest untapped resources that often gets overlooked...
The Level 4 AI and Automation Practitioner apprenticeship launched by Skills England has arrived at a difficult moment for the FE sector. The management apprenticeship...
The term NEET has long been used as shorthand for young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training. It is often framed as...
New apprenticeship reforms could play an important role in improving diversity across the UK workforce, particularly as policymakers seek to widen access to skilled careers and address persistent barriers...
This article was written by Laura-Jane Rawlings MBE DL, CEO & Founder of Youth Employment UK. It explores the growing youth unemployment crisis in the...
Alan Milburn’s interim findings from his Independent Review, Young People and Work, published yesterday, warn of a growing generational fault line, with more than one...
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Over 160,000 students take A Levels in colleges every year and this summer’s results are the culmination of their commitment and hard work and that…
Near the top of the new Secretary of State’s in tray will be the options for making the Apprenticeship levy more palatable for employers and…
Trauma is healed better collectively – The role of education in ending the #MentalHealth stigma in Black communities Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to…
Continuous retraining as a solution to job losses from #automation and #AI The World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs 2018 report says that machines could…
This is the second of my articles on mentoring which followed the discussion I had during my lunch with my old friend, Andy. In the…
With the time for A Level and GCSE results upon us, the pressure is high for students to decide their future career at the young…
Last month, Radio 4 aired ‘The Forgotten Half’ – a shocking indictment of how we are failing young people who choose non-university routes into employment…
Editor’s note: Jacqui wrote this article for organisations interested in becoming end-point assessment organisations (EpAOs), back in 2019. She is still receiving calls and messages off the…
Goal setting within the workplace Recently, I was running a ‘Coaching and Mentoring in the Workplace‘ workshop where we explored the good old GROW model. GROW…
Functional skills tutors become used to supporting students who not only have trouble reading writing and spelling but who often think it is their fault…
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