Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...
Almost a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). That’s a grim milestone that’s only marginally dropped in the latest quarter according to the ONS....
“Employers are far more likely to engage when they believe the organisation contacting them understands the commercial environment in which they operate.” We cannot solve...
The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...
Higher and degree apprenticeships should be one of the most powerful drivers of social mobility. They offer the chance to earn while learning, gain real...
The hiring and recruitment space is experiencing more change than ever before. Just under a million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are now out...
Last week brought a welcome signal that the government is ready to rethink GCSE maths resits. Education Secretary Lucy Powell acknowledged that failing to get...
In a few short weeks, tens of thousands of young people fresh from receiving their A-level and BTEC results will head off to university to...
As August draws to a close, Further Education settles into a particular rhythm. INSET days land in the final week of the month, enrolment week...
The first in a new series examining international careers, employability and skills systems, and what England might responsibly learn from them. Introduction There is something...
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In the face of potentially record high youth unemployment and a bleak economic outlook, the Chancellor’s investment in skills, apprenticeships and careers advice is undoubtedly…
An Unprecedented Shock The COVID shock to economic growth and the public finances is unprecedented in the modern era. To find anything with a similar…
‘The customer is the foundation of a business and keeps it in existence. He (or she) alone gives it employment’ (Peter Drucker 1963). Have you…
Lockdown has been an odd phenomenon. For some life changing; bringing sickness, job loss and economic hardship. But for many who have not faced illness…
@TheIFS – The UK Government is spending big on supporting public services and the economy through the COVID-19 recovery and beyond. There are, for example,…
@AlokSharma_RDG launches 4 week devolution consultation on the UK internal market white paper The UK government has today [16 July] laid out plans to deliver on its manifesto…
Following the latest publication of the @ONS unemployment stats this morning, the figures showed a 649,000 drop in workers on payroll from March to June…
#NSS2020 – The results of the @OfficeStudents 2020 National Student Survey Responding to this year’s National Student Survey (NSS), published today (15 Jul), 83 per cent…
Six recommendations for improvement: Dame Mary Ney’s review of financial oversight arrangements for further education and sixth form colleges Proposals to strengthen relationships with colleges…
The government has announced details of the immigration system that is to come into force on 1 January 2021. Under the plan, people considered ‘low…
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