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In 2026 the job market feels uncertain for many people entering the workforce. The UK unemployment rate has risen to a near five-year high. At...
Rising youth unemployment highlights growing complexity for practitioners. This article explores how recent reforms, system challenges and frontline insight shape what’s needed to support young...
Skills shortages in construction are not a new problem. For at least ten years, we have been grappling with this issue, and the CITB is...
The need for a third post-16 Level 3 pathway, providing a middle ground between A Levels and T Levels, has long been clear. The dual-track...
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The Department for Education has now published more of its policy decisions that shape the future for technical qualifications at Level 3 and below in...
In this article, Dr Lucy Atkinson, Director of the Centre for Academic Persistence at Arden University, explores if, and how, providers can use gamification to...
As the workplace continues to evolve at pace, one thing is clear: our skills system needs to keep up. The government’s recent announcement of V...
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Mark Dewell, SVP of Education, Government, and Housing at OneAdvanced, considers the pressures created by ongoing reform in further education and the practical considerations providers…
The forthcoming world of apprenticeships assessment marks a significant change in the way apprenticeship assessments are designed and delivered. For non-integrated apprenticeships it will be…
Towards the end of 2025, the first resources from the Green Mindset Collective (an EAUC, ETF and FE News initiative) were published, including a ‘Playbook’.…
The final article in a 4-part series reviewing Ofsted’s Inclusion Toolkit via the graduated approach: Assess, Plan, Do, Review. The Inclusion Question Leaders Can No…
In the current apprenticeship end-point assessment model, end-point assessment organisations (known as awarding organisations to Ofqual – AOs) collect feedback to support the ongoing review,…
It is a year since the Government announced its Apprenticeship Assessment Principles, marking the most significant shift in assessment policy since the introduction of End‑Point…
Capital City College CEO Angela Joyce shares how, from life skills to digital learning, FE colleges are helping students feel capable, connected, and ready for…
“Unemployment has been rising and young people in particular are feeling the effects.” So began BBC Radio 4 World at One’s report on yesterday’s Labour…
2025 marked a turning point for UK skills policy. With the publication of the Industrial Strategy and Skills England’s report, a bolder national vision came…
The latest labour market figures from the ONS are pretty dismal reading for job seekers, particularly the young. While the overall unemployment rate is 5.2%,…
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