Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the UK economy, yet encouraging more of them to participate in apprenticeships remains a challenge. While much...
As we await Alan Milburn’s final review of young people and work, much of the debate has understandably focused on the scale of youth inactivity,...
A college can achieve a strong staff survey response rate and still fail to hear from some of the people it most needs to understand....
In a special feature for FE News to mark Get the Nation Learning Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members...
The Government’s Youth Guarantee is a welcome recognition that too many young people are being left behind. But if it is to succeed over the...
Picture a meeting that covers a change to timetables, a new adjustments plan, or a restructure proposal. Everyone nods. Actions are agreed. Then, over the...
There has been increased debate over youth participation in education and employment, and the scale of the challenge is undeniable. Nearly one million young people...
Every November the Department for Education counts the school workforce, and every year the headline is about teachers. This year's count, published last month, is...
Think about the young people leaving further education this year. One might be heading to university. Another is starting an apprenticeship. One is going straight...
The forthcoming Budget and the Milburn Review will bring further focus onto participation, opportunity and workforce development; apprenticeships are once again set to occupy a...
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An open letter to the Secretary of State for Education Dear Secretary of State, The FES’s emergency stop and sharp turn into ‘online’ teaching, what…
As part of its new Teaching, Learning, Assessment and Development policy, Capital City College Group (@capitalcitycg) has launched a new initiative called One Thing to…
ANNOUNCING EDGE’S NEW INNOVATION FUND The Edge Foundation strives to make education relevant to life and work in the world today. We are big supporters…
The Reality of FE #TEL Post-Covid-19: Thoughts from the bike by an FE Teacher Educator What will Covid-19 mean for TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) in…
When moving a course online, it may be helpful to think look at the process from a number of viewpoints; one of these is channels…
An island enveloped by artful storms, a product of detritus, pilgrims and marauders washed up on an inhospitable shore, Further Education stands, simultaneously occupied and…
Alex Burghart appointed Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Alex Burghart, Conservative MP for Brentwood & Ongar, has been announced as a parliamentary under secretary of state at…
An open letter to education and care professionals from new Education Secretary @NadhimZahawi Nadhim Zahawi, the new Secretary of State for Education, has written to all…
Our book called Digital Learning Architectures of Participation was published by IGI Global in July 2020, and we have 20 years’ experience each working in FE…
Gillian Keegan moves on from her post as Skills Minister to Department of Health and Social Care as a result of the Government reshuffle. Gillian…
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