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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Future Pedagogies – The Context In his very helpful BERA paper The origins of Further Education in England and Wales (2019) Ross Goldstone, of Cardiff…
New @HEPI_news and @UUKIntl analysis shows that just one year’s intake of incoming international students is worth £28.8 billion to the UK economy Today’s report, The costs…
Covid has transformed the landscape of digital learning more in this last year than in the ten years since the ‘Year of MOOC’ in 2012! All…
This set of essays on future pedagogies is timely after a year like no other in which colleges and FE providers were forced in double-quick…
Teaching and learning online is not a new concept and has been with us for many years. Many FE and HE educational establishments over the…
LABOUR SHORTAGES WILL CONTINUE IN THE FACE OF GOVERNMENT INACTION, DELAYING UK ECONOMIC RECOVERY – CBI (@CBItweets) Director-General outlines labour market insights alongside urgent recommendations Labour supply problems could last for up…
#rED2021 – The Chief Inspector discussed @Ofstednew’s research on education during the pandemic, remote education and curriculum at researchED National Conference 2021: What a brilliant day…
In Aleem v E-Act Academy Trust Limited, the Employment Appeals Tribunal confirmed that a school didn’t have to continue to pay a teacher at their previous…
Lecturers warn employers against breaching performance rights, agreements for re-use of recordings should last no more than one year. The University and College Union (UCU)…
Rejigging Your Thoughts Professor Dan Levitin’s (@DanLevitin) bestseller The Organized Mind bears a subtitle likely to stir instant agreement among all manner of readers: Thinking Straight…
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