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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#4IR The importance of ‘the humanities’ and the value of studying this field in light of the Fourth Industrial Revolution I was first in my family…
LONDON REMAINS THE ELITE EPICENTRE OF THE UK AND IS BECOMING HARDER TO ACCESS FOR LESS ADVANTAGED YOUNG PEOPLE Becoming socially mobile – moving into…
@Ofsted Chief Inspector warns against pursuing success without substance This year’s annual report finds the overall quality of education and care in England is good…
@SMCommission – Social mobility barometer poll results for 2019 People living in the north-east are the most pessimistic about their chances to progress in the area…
Education Secretary @GavinWilliamson joins call urging business to #MakeADifference and do more to close #SkillsGap in schools Today is our Businesses Backing Social Mobility event at @KPMG.…
Figures uncovered today by YMCA reveal the true extent of cuts to youth services funding by local authorities in England and Wales since 2010, with…
Society has move on in so many ways in the last 35 years. Take gender roles, for example. Sky News reported that in 1984, 42…
Jaskiran Kang, lead interaction designer @ESFAgov talks about how the #Apprenticeship Service has been creating a culture of #DesignCrits Design critiques (crits) are used to review…
#FreePeriods – Ending #PeriodPoverty Free period products are to be made available to all schools and colleges in England from next week, as the Department…
#EPA Live The new decade is upon the apprenticeships sector and with End Point Assessment becoming such an integral part of the process, NOCN is…
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