FE leaders are not short of priorities. Funding pressures, curriculum reform, skills gaps, and meeting diverse learner needs all demand attention, so the instinct can...
Across the country, clean energy projects are falling behind schedule. Sometimes it’s planning disputes. Other times, it’s budget pressures. But the challenge that often goes...
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...
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In our previous Shedding Light on the Labour Market, we looked at the Green Economy, identifying a total of 366 relevant job titles in our…
@TheNFER have launched a new report: Putting Apprenticeships to Work for Young People which finds that the apprenticeship system in England requires urgent action to…
Joint DBEIS and DfE Green Jobs Taskforce Given the importance attached by the UK Government to achieving Net Zero, the consequent employment and skills needs…
Current Green Jobs For all the talk about the transformation of the economy to meet the challenges of Net Zero, the number of green jobs…
Universities Minister @MichelleDonelan spoke to the @BritishCouncil’s Going Global Conference about higher education and the Government’s international education strategy: Thank you for inviting me to…
Simon Lebus, Interim Chief Regulator, @Ofqual spoke at the Girls’ Schools Association (@GSAUK) Summer Briefing 2021: Good morning. It is a great pleasure to be here…
The Great Transition The transition to Net Zero is a huge opportunity to retool the UK’s industry for a clean future and create large numbers…
@ONS Labour Market Statistics: Jobs market recovering, but more than half a million long-term unemployed for first time in five years The latest figures suggest…
Achieving Net Zero UK Style Achieving a net zero economy by 2050 will require enormous changes in our economy and in how we live our…
“Education is a passport to a better life”, so said Malcolm X the iconic 1960’s American Civil Rights campaigner. And in 2021, in a time…
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