While the headlines this year have gone to pathways and funding, the deepest apprenticeship reform is happening in a corner of the system most commentary...
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...
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This article discusses the importance of a national skills strategy in the UK, focusing on regional needs, flexibility in policies, and the role of local…
In the third of five articles for FE News themed around their Skills Means Growth vision for a sustainable skills system, AELP outlines how we…
As leading prison education provider Novus marks its 30th anniversary, Managing Director Peter Cox reflects on three decades of delivering programmes to hard-to-reach learners –…
In the first entry of her ‘Diary of an Apprentice’ series, Sakina Khan details her experience of beginning a Level 7 apprenticeship later in life,…
Last month the Lords Education for 11-16 Year Olds Committee published its long-awaited report on the education system for secondary school-age children. And the overall…
Skills Minister Robert Halfon MP shares his thoughts on National Apprenticeship Week 2024. This National Apprenticeship Week, I want to reflect on what government, businesses…
Building an apprenticeship scheme that meets individual and organisational needs whilst fully utilising the Apprentice Levy is no easy task. I know that we are…
“Skills for Life” is both an inspirational and very appropriate theme for this year’s National Apprenticeship Week. The half-life of skills is shrinking making continuous…
Kirstie Donnelly MBE, Chief Executive, City & Guilds reflects on the positive value of apprenticeships to learners and the economy. She focuses on how apprenticeships can…
Eight years on from the launch of the Apprenticeship Levy, and billions are still going unspent while industry struggles with skills gaps. Anna Clarke, director…
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