At the start of his second week as Prime Minister, Andy Burnham has announced what amounts to a revolution in education policy. We have heard...
Kerry Boffey of FIN identifies changes in the Ofsted operating guide and toolkit which require provider attention before September. Providers preparing for inspection should pay...
Today's announcement from the Prime Minister is significant structural reform. Technical education pathways from age 14, combining core academic subjects with employer contact and workplace...
By mid-July, most Further Education leadership teams have shifted their attention to enrolment, exam boards and the slow scramble to close out the academic year....
This year’s World Youth Skills Day theme, 'Skills for a shared future', is timely. Young people are entering a labour market being reshaped by artificial intelligence, automation and changing employer expectations. Yet too often we describe...
Economic inactivity linked to long-term health conditions has now reached 2.8 million people in the UK, costing the country an estimated £212 billion per year...
FE leaders are not short of priorities. Funding pressures, curriculum reform, skills gaps, and meeting diverse learner needs all demand attention, so the instinct can...
Across the country, clean energy projects are falling behind schedule. Sometimes it’s planning disputes. Other times, it’s budget pressures. But the challenge that often goes...
Part Three of three on children, social media and the ban. The first piece asked how we arrived here. The second asked what we should...
As AI adoption outpaces the systems meant to recognise it, the question for the sector is not how to teach AI, but how to certify...
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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…
In an era defined by rapid change – AI and technological disruption, evolving workplace expectations, sustainability, and deep economic uncertainty – effective management and leadership…
Today, Alan Milburn published his long-awaited interim review into why nearly one million young people in England are not in education, employment or training. His…
New research from the CDI reveals a generation in crisis over the world of work, and puts FE professionals at the centre of the solution.…
Apprenticeships were designed for a stable world. Today’s employers, however, operate in a climate defined by rapid change and uncertainty. Economic volatility, technological disruption, and…
On 20th May 2026, the Department for Education published their list of qualifications for 16 to 19 year olds that they believe are being replaced…
I finally caught up on Channel 4’s Dirty Business, a docudrama following the timeline of the ongoing sewage scandal. One scene sets the tone for what…
We are living through a period of technological acceleration unlike any other. The rapid, widespread adoption of artificial intelligence, coupled with ongoing cloud transformation and…
When organisations think about online exams, the conversation usually centres around question design, candidate experience or proctoring. Infrastructure is rarely the starting point, but in…
Ensuring that the further education (FE) sector has a high-quality teaching workforce is critical to the government’s ambitions for the sector and its wider industrial…
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