Picture this. A member of your teaching staff is three weeks into a formal performance improvement process. Observations have been graded as requiring improvement. You...
This is Part One of three on the under-sixteen social media ban: how we got here, whether it is right and what comes next. On...
This was my fifth AELP National Conference and it's safe to say I've never experienced one quite like it. It was certainly the hottest, but...
In November 2025, in schools and colleges across England, well over 160,000 GCSE English and Maths entries were sat in the autumn series, a figure...
Yusuf Ibrahim, Vice Principal at CAVC, takes Alan Milburn's interim review as a starting point and asks what the Welsh data really tells us about...
Andy Burnham hasn't become Prime Minister yet. His speech at the People's History Museum in Manchester this afternoon reads less like a leadership pitch and...
There is a growing sense that England is finally beginning to talk seriously about tertiary education. The language has shifted, the political framing is changing,...
Across Europe we share a common concern: how do we prevent young people from disappearing from education, employment and training? In England, the term NEET...
The legitimacy of digital assessment is becoming a defining issue for organisations operating in regulated and skills-driven environments. As online exams become embedded across education...
As AI becomes embedded across education and training, leaders face a critical challenge: ensuring that efficiency gains do not erode emotional intelligence. Research suggests human...
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I use the term digital transformation in almost every conversation I have relating to the success of UK tertiary education. Ahead of my upcoming session at this year’s Digifest I want to take a look at how…
The Lifelong Education Institute (LEI), in partnership with the Mixed Economy Group of Colleges (MEG), has today published a landmark policy paper titled ‘Partners in…
Radical expansion in rights for children with SEND to transform life chances The government has today pledged to end the one size fits all education system…
The government has announced £4 billion in SEND reforms as part of its schools white paper, Every Child Achieving and Thriving. This follows the wider…
The government is set to publish its schools white paper on Monday, with reforms that will have a direct impact on the FE sector: SEND…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 835: 21st February 2026 | London Has the UK’s Highest Unemployment Rate. Youth Unemployment at 5-Year High. Why Has the…
The government has announced sweeping reforms to independent special school funding, introducing national price bands and new statutory standards to end what it calls “unjustified”…
The Work Foundation, at Lancaster University analysis of latest ONS figures indicate that one in eleven disabled people are unemployed (9.2%) and the unemployment rate…
The latest ONS Labour Market data has been released today (17th February 2026). This is the latest estimate of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other…
Last month, I sat in a meeting with a local business owner who’d just spent thousands training an apprentice on software that became obsolete before they qualified. “Why didn’t anyone…
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