ICAEW's research into mid-tier accountancy firms found that, while firms expect AI to reduce demand for some early-career tasks, most do not anticipate an overall...
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The government's plans for young people will go further if they are built around the colleges already providing technical pathways, work placements and apprenticeships, argues...
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There are now 11 applicants for every degree apprenticeship place in England, up from 3 just three years ago, according to government data. That competition...
Every year, apprenticeship providers brace themselves for a new set of funding rules. The annual ritual is familiar: download the document, highlight the changes, update...
Using AI to help draft a lesson plan is one thing. Using it to assess whether a prospective learner should study at Level 2 or...
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Colleges in England are currently considering what shape FE provision might take in the years ahead. Whatever your views are on the reforms to post-16…
The subcontracting of learner volumes is becoming increasingly commonplace as colleges seek to grow their funding allocations. According to the most recent SFA list of…
Establishing ground rules with your learners, whether in a group or a one to one basis will help underpin appropriate behaviour and respect throughout their…
I have followed the development of the Careers and Enterprise Company with interest and am pleased to see it finally kicking off, following the official…
The recent AELP Autumn Conference saw 250 providers try to make sense of an apprenticeship programme that faces a number of changes. While the current…
During the summer, around the time that George Osborne’s apprenticeship levy was first announced, cross-party think-tank Demos published an interesting report on the state of…
The five-week phenomenon that was Banksy’s Dismaland generated great excitement in Weston-super-Mare, not least among learners in the media and creative departments at Weston College.…
Ofqual removed the Qualification Credit Framework (QCF) rules on 30 September 2015. Although designed with the laudable intention to make vocational qualifications easier to access,…
Whilst DWP are keeping tight-lipped around the detail of the successor programme to the Work Programme until after November’s Comprehensive Spending Review, a few hints…
How many of us have been out and about and been frustrated by something we couldn’t do, by a problem we’ve spotted, or by the…
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