Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...
Almost a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). That’s a grim milestone that’s only marginally dropped in the latest quarter according to the ONS....
“Employers are far more likely to engage when they believe the organisation contacting them understands the commercial environment in which they operate.” We cannot solve...
The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...
Higher and degree apprenticeships should be one of the most powerful drivers of social mobility. They offer the chance to earn while learning, gain real...
The hiring and recruitment space is experiencing more change than ever before. Just under a million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are now out...
Last week brought a welcome signal that the government is ready to rethink GCSE maths resits. Education Secretary Lucy Powell acknowledged that failing to get...
In a few short weeks, tens of thousands of young people fresh from receiving their A-level and BTEC results will head off to university to...
As August draws to a close, Further Education settles into a particular rhythm. INSET days land in the final week of the month, enrolment week...
The first in a new series examining international careers, employability and skills systems, and what England might responsibly learn from them. Introduction There is something...
Exclusive thought leadership articles written peer to peer by leading experts about the future of education and the future of work. Experts writing op’ed and thought leadership articles on apprenticeships, skills and employability.
A major fear since the advent of ChatGPT in November 2022 is that the integrity of remote assessment in higher and further education is under…
With the global market share for Artificial Intelligence (AI) expected to have an annual growth rate of over 28% by 2030, educational institutions are urged…
Our institutions have spent the last two years attempting to adjust to the implications of generative AI for the ways in which we teach, learn,…
Post the Labour Party Conference, held in Liverpool, Dr Vikki Smith, Executive Director, Education and Standards, at Education and Training Foundation reflects on the Labour…
There’s a lot of talk, understandably, around the introduction of the latest arms-length skills body, Skills England. Back in November the CBI called in its…
The UK is experiencing an unusual economic problem. We have signs of a thriving economy – low unemployment and skills shortages, but with an economy…
I remember so well those days when my children used to arrive home from school and I’d ask, “so, what did you do at school…
Keir Starmer addressed the Labour Party Conference last Tuesday. Since coming to power there has been a clear focus by the new government on economic…
We are witnessing the rise of a new elite—those who have mastered AI tools like ChatGPT. These individuals are gaining far more than technical skills;…
FIN’s Kerry Boffey calls for more flexible funding to support innovative NEET projects such as the SCL summer pop-up in the North West. In the…
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