Further education, work-based learning organisations and skills providers are all operating in a very complex environment - shaped by tight budgets, workforce shortages (with teacher...
A country facing prolonged conflict, economic fragmentation and collapsing public services cannot afford to leave its younger generation trapped between interrupted education, weak labour demand...
Why trust, not technology, is emerging as the defining challenge as AI adoption accelerates across the sector The debate around artificial intelligence in assessment is...
The promise of an AI-driven transformation has never been more pronounced. But the real shift is not what AI can do; it is what humans...
While many businesses are focused on growth, the underlying challenge is often one of efficiency. Particularly in today’s climate, where budgets are tight and hiring...
A decade ago, digital skills were often seen as specialist knowledge. Today, they sit alongside English and maths as essential workplace literacies. Sustainability is now...
Before our sector rushes to introduce apprenticeship quality measures, it’s time we made better use of the strongest public indicator we already have. An industry...
The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction. At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged...
As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market. Having worked in the sector for over 20...
AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work. Increasingly, career development practitioners are using large language models to support guidance sessions and for resource creation...
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Year 11 students across England will be able to view their GCSE results on their phones for the first time from this summer, speeding up…
Mentoring and supervision are often discussed as desirable additions to professional development in further education and careers work. In reality, they are increasingly central to workforce performance, professional identity and…
The UK’s education system is undergoing its most significant reform in over a decade. The Curriculum and Assessment Review (CAR) sets out a vision for…
The FE and Skills 2026 New Year’s Honours List has been announced, including a couple of ‘Hullraisers’, Saf Ali for his amazing work on diversity…
As we know, education has always been about people and delivered well, it should evoke curiosity, aspiration and opportunity among its students. Yet the way…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 828: 20th December 2025. Last Soundbite of 2025: Mayors, Milburn and Major Welfare Reform This is the weekly e-newsletter and…
When eight of our Media, Broadcast and Production T Level students walked into the Liverpool City Region AI Summit this October, they had a chance…
A Lioness and an award-winning civil engineer apprentice have been honoured for their contribution to further education. This week, as 2025 comes to an end,…
The backlog of people waiting to have their work capability assessed is to be significantly reduced through a package of measures that will reduce UK welfare spending by £1.9bn by the end of 2030/31. The changes will see the Government…
2025 was the year apprenticeship reform stopped being a future conversation and became an urgent, unavoidable reality. From levy changes to assessment overhauls, the sector…
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