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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The government should split the Higher Education sector into ‘local’ and ‘national’ universities With ministers expected to outline major reforms to the Higher Education…
In parts one and two of this series, we looked at how data can be used to identify the industries and occupations which give an area…
In the first week of July, over half a million people across the UK received an NHS notification to self-isolate1 after coming into contact with someone…
Universities and Colleges up and down the country are facing a watershed moment. A rapid transition to online learning against a backdrop of financial insecurity…
The annual report from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeships (@ApprenticeAPPG) this week calls on government to increase up take and improve delivery of apprenticeships,…
@educationgovuk – Education programmes to help support Gypsy, Roma and Traveller pupils have been launched by the Communities Minister, Lord Greenhalgh (@team_greenhalgh), today (22nd July).…
A cornerstone of @BorisJohnson’s Conservtive Manifesto, in September 2019 @GavinWilliamson announced that salaries for new teachers were set to rise to £30,000 by 2022-23, under…
Abolishing #GCSEs would take our education system back decades and, once again, fail the most disadvantaged children says @NickGibbUK, addressing a Social Market Foundation (@SMFthinktank) panel…
Myth-busting the place of gendered violence and inequality education within our school curriculum The world of education has been rocked by the experiences of our…
Social Mobility Commission (@SMCommission) calls for end to child poverty as it unveils ambitious plan to put social mobility at the heart of post pandemic recovery…
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