From the end of 2023, until the beginning of 2025, I was leading a piece of research titled Appreciating and Supporting Neurodiversity for the New...
Further Education colleges are already driving innovation every day, yet their contribution remains largely invisible in national policy. Elaine Baxter explores why recognising, supporting and...
Last week, I joined representatives from Parliament, employers, business organisations, awarding bodies and the wider skills sector at the New Statesman Politics Live event to...
The most important word in apprenticeships is not achievement. That is not about diminishing the importance of completion or success. Achievement matters. It signals that...
In the second part of our special feature for FE News to mark Youth Employment Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings...
There is growing evidence that sustainability is moving from a specialist function into mainstream business operations Employers are increasingly seeking professionals who combine technical business...
This is Part Two of three on children, social media and the ban. The government is introducing legislation to bar children from the platforms. It...
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,...
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This episode, we’re going back to education and looking at how practitioners can evidence their learning support. Because without evidence, there’s no accountability or proof…
In this podcast, the second in a series of six, we are looking at what education leaders should understand about the legal context around criminal…
A recent paperback by Cambridge Professor of Politics and author David Runciman (1) examines the writing of twelve major scholars to reconsider their main themes…
The government’s Skills for Growth conference takes place today (22 June), hosting some of the biggest British and international companies to discuss how we can…
It’s Pride Month! Pride month is upon us and well underway. For many this is highlighting for them – how do we actually promote greater…
Have you considered that transitioning into the engineering field with neurodiverse challenges can present unique considerations and opportunities? Neurodiversity is a concept that embraces the…
Today (20th June) the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, reconfirmed his commitment to adult education by announcing £135m more in funding to help Londoners access learning and get into good jobs. This essential funding will support more than…
Ufi VocTech Trust (Ufi) and Learning and Work Institute (L&W) have today made public an ambitious £3million programme to deliver a step-change in the numbers…
Apprenticeship starts and completions show worrying declines, despite construction and trade business owners rating skills shortages as their top concern. Construction sector already faces huge…
Schools hold a wide variety of personal data on children, parents and carers, often on a number of different digital platforms. Data Protection in educational…
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