Part Three of three on children, social media and the ban. The first piece asked how we arrived here. The second asked what we should...
As AI adoption outpaces the systems meant to recognise it, the question for the sector is not how to teach AI, but how to certify...
There is a phrase that gets used a lot in education technology right now, and it rarely means what people think it means. "AI-powered" has...
Burnham’s push for No 10 North and a devolved 14–19 offer promises new routes for young people; whether the MBacc becomes the model is now...
The longer I spend working as an independent governance, risk and compliance consultant, the more I find myself thinking that many organisations aren't actually managing...
We know that attendance remains one of the most closely monitored metrics in education. Still, for those working across further education, inclusion, and youth participation,...
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...
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A new report warns that there is a substantial risk that teacher recruitment targets will not be met this year across a large range of…
Joe Crossley, CEO of Qube Learning, a national training and recruitment solutions provider, works to increase the employment prospects for those furthest down the socioeconomic…
Life chances and education go together. Once someone leaves school with few qualifications, it requires considerable dedication and effort to catch up. Many never do.…
Ofsted and HMI Prisons release: “Prison education: a review of reading education in prisons” report. Failing to teach prisoners to read leaves up to half…
The long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper was published on 2 February 2022. There are some admirable and well thought through concepts and creative and robust…
The Levelling Up White Paper was both long awaited and long, clocking in at 332 pages. It includes a list of the largest cities in…
The Levelling Up White Paper in its sections on education and skills makes a number of statements and promises about the role of employers, noting…
To level up local economies, we must focus on the skills provision that has the biggest impact on raising local productivity. From this perspective, higher…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Weekly Journal Edition #636 Sorry for the sensational title of this week’s FE Soundbite – but that is a very, very…
The long-awaited publication of the Government’s Levelling Up White Paper should have marked an important step in transforming opportunities for left behind areas. The promise…
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