With the news that the next UK / EU Summit is due to take place on 20th November, negotiations to get the proposed UK /...
To coincide with Jisc's session at the Association of Colleges (AoC) annual conference, Mark Tysom sets out clear guidance for FE leaders to enhance their...
New analysis of data reveals a stark numeracy divide across England, with communities in the North struggling with numbers more than those in the South....
The school 14-16 curriculum has not served the needs of all children. For too long vocational education has been the preserve of FE, especially for...
Two senior roundtables on AI adoption kept returning to the same quiet risk: the tasks that once taught young people the job are being automated...
Lord Agnew, Chair of the House of Lords special inquiry Numeracy for Life Committee summarises the findings and conclusions of the Committee’s year-long inquiry. For...
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...
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Before Covid-19 and Brexit Two Big Successes The time period that began after the financial crisis and ran until the onset of the coronavirus was,…
The valuable paper from the Institute for @EmploymtStudies ‘Getting Back to Work: Dealing with the Labour Market Impacts of the COVID-19 Recession’ (April 2020) discusses…
@CollegeComm – The UK needs a new vision for colleges to drive a green economic recovery and better living standards Geoff Barton (General Secretary of the…
@MichelleDonelan addresses the fifth #HEFestival hosted by @UniOfBuckingham Good morning, I am delighted by this opportunity to speak at this celebration of higher education. We…
Waiting for economic data to emerge over the past few weeks has been rather like anticipating a root canal – you know it’s going to…
Structural Impact At a structural level, Covid-19 will simply exacerbate pre-existing weaknesses in our economy, namely too great a reliance on a low wage, low…
As part of @GavinWilliamson’s announcement today, disadvantaged pupils in schools and colleges will benefit from the second part of the catch-up fund, a £350m tutoring fund.…
We all know Blair’s Education, Education, Education mantra and our current Prime Minister has just launched his infrastructure initiative with Build, Build, Build – but…
These are difficult times for employers and apprentices, with economic forecasts for this year estimating our economy will shrink by 9.2 per cent. Unemployment has…
A Better Recovery The TUC’s vision of a better recovery takes as its premise that the coronavirus pandemic and the measures taken to tackle it…
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