While the headlines this year have gone to pathways and funding, the deepest apprenticeship reform is happening in a corner of the system most commentary...
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...
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A Right to Adult ‘Training and Retraining’ The National Skills Fund’s underlying long-term aim is stated to be moves towards a ‘right to train’, analogous…
Since 2017 there has been significant reporting about the decline in #Apprenticeship numbers, often blamed on the introduction of the levy and increased focus by…
#ArtificialIntelligence (#AI) isn’t new, but its role in the #education sector is – How will the classrooms of the future look? Thanks to video and…
A 2018 Deloitte Survey which analysed 10,455 millennials, born between 1983 and 1994, from 36 countries across the globe, found that 43 per cent of…
#LevellingUp The British Countryside – We’re not doing enough to make it the greatest place in the world to grow up Earlier this year, former…
Two Schemes Since the general election manifesto commitment, we have learnt that there will be a tie-up between the proposed National Skills Fund and the…
Waking up and going to work can be a great achievement for those suffering a mental illness or a period of poor mental health. It…
Developing our #EPAO business: A view from @The_IMI Just over three years ago, I took on a secondment to map out what part the IMI would…
#SkillsMismatch – 20% of the Workforce Under-Skilled for Their Jobs by 2030 Andy Haldane knows a thing or two about the UK’s skills and productivity…
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who has joined my campaign through Promote-Ed to make the skills sector one of positivity. I have been overwhelmed…
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