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...
When it comes to employees, further education doesn't suffer from a shortage of enthusiasm or dedication. In fact, an analysis of FE staff survey responses...
Level 1 and 2 results day (not just GCSE as will become clear below) provides an annual reminder of the failings of our educational system....
During this summer's heatwaves, further education and skills providers across the country found themselves trying to run assessments, practical workshops and exams in buildings, workplaces...
This summer has delivered the clearest statement of intent on skills that further education has seen in a generation. Technical education pathways from age 14,...
For social care to be fit for the future, the workforce must be central to reform. Adult social care stands at a critical moment. Demand for care...
The State of the Skills Sector 2026 reveals that skills providers largely have confidence in their own performance, but far less certainty about policy, funding,...
My first job in the civil service was working on the team delivering plans for 14-19 Diplomas in response to the Tomlinson Review. It was a...
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With the creative industries employing 2.2 million people, generating more the £111 billion a year and being one of the fastest growing parts of the…
Debates on the role of employers in skills often focus on how the publicly-funded system can best meet their needs. This is important, but we…
On Thursday, 23rd June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union and some three and a half years later, on Friday, 31st January…
More than a tick-box exercise Approximately 40% of companies worldwide have a DEI policy and that number is thankfully growing as more and more industry leaders take…
The recent ‘Slouching towards utopia: an economic history of the twentieth century’ by the US economist J Bradford DeLong shows a turn in the world…
There are 163 further education colleges in England. They work with around 130,000 employers – an average of 800 employers each. There are around 2.4…
Ahead of the Black Leadership Group’s conference tomorrow (21 March) on promoting racial equity, Jeremy Miles MS, Minister for Education and the Welsh Language, said…
Universities play a vital role in the UK’s business and innovation ecosystem; their network of labour, skills, research and commercial activity is an important part…
Conserving and protecting indigenous, threatened or non-dominant languages is, I think most people agree, quite important. What most people may know about this preservation work…
The 38 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) are business led partnerships between the private, public and third sector. They play a central role in determining the…
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