When Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham walks into Number 10- be that Downing Street or the ‘Number 10 of the north’ in Manchester- what should his...
The idea that a career in research is becoming obsolete is easy to understand. It is also wrong, but not for the reasons you might expect. Behind the debate about research careers lies a more...
It’s Youth Employment Week, and in a special feature for FE News, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members Adrian Wookey,...
Aspiring marketers are set to enter the industry at a challenging, but exciting time. Competition for jobs may only become greater, with the recent Milburn...
Picture this. A member of your teaching staff is three weeks into a formal performance improvement process. Observations have been graded as requiring improvement. You...
This is Part One of three on the under-sixteen social media ban: how we got here, whether it is right and what comes next. On...
This was my fifth AELP National Conference and it's safe to say I've never experienced one quite like it. It was certainly the hottest, but...
In November 2025, in schools and colleges across England, well over 160,000 GCSE English and Maths entries were sat in the autumn series, a figure...
Yusuf Ibrahim, Vice Principal at CAVC, takes Alan Milburn's interim review as a starting point and asks what the Welsh data really tells us about...
Andy Burnham hasn't become Prime Minister yet. His speech at the People's History Museum in Manchester this afternoon reads less like a leadership pitch and...
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Dr Vikki Smith, Executive Director of Education and Standards at the Education and Training Foundation, discusses the key themes and recommendations from the latest FE…
The revised Gatsby Benchmarks were launched mid November, after over a decade of use in secondary schools and colleges across England. As a key element…
Jane examines the challenges economically inactive women face returning to work, drawing from her career in employability services. She discusses barriers like childcare costs and…
Artificial intelligence has moved from the periphery of possibility to the centre of everyday life, reshaping industries, societies, and how we engage with the world…
Three Cs characterised the first panel of the new-look Education Select Committee’s second public session, certainty, choice, and clarity. The Committee focused on the Government’s…
Today, the Edge Foundation publishes a new research report: Student Voices: what are students saying about their experiences of T Levels? As the nation faces skills…
After much anticipation, the Government has released the Get Britain Working White Paper. The White Paper, along with the Employment Rights Bill, sets out the…
Beth explains what colleges and ITPs need to know about the updates to the Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance and the evidence that has…
If FE was a grand orchestra—a diverse group of musicians with different skills, instruments, and styles—its educators would be the conductors, carefully harmonising each musician’s…
We’ve all been there – pulling an all-nighter before a test, or cramming for a big presentation, only to forget most of what we learned…
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