With the final Milburn Report on young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) due to be published imminently, Josh Hillman asks how AI...
Education is incredibly cyclical, as those who have been in it for some time will attest. But what have we learned from its history? In...
In this exclusive feature to mark Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, Mat Parker, Head of Careers and Inclusion at the Engineering Construction Industry Training Board (ECITB), brings...
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...
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According to the Office for National Statistics, British productivity has improved by just 0.5 per cent per year since 2008, and lags 15 per cent…
It’s a positive step that the benefits of bringing employer volunteers into the classroom are now much more widely recognised. Gatsby benchmark number 5 highlights multiple…
Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Anne Milton speech at the Association of Colleges spring conference (23rd May 2019): I was appointed to this job on 12th…
In recent years an increasing number of children have shown signs of suffering from mental health issues, with three children in every classroom reported to…
Worried About The End Of May? – Surely Not. As most people working in FE and in training provider organisations know, the last day of…
As our sector continues to deliver the skills agenda against the backdrop of a pitiful funding picture, you’re always conscious that the situation may go…
Low take-up, unambitious targets and poor-quality training: the Public Accounts Committee raises concerns over government reforms to the apprenticeships programme. REPORT SUMMARY The Department for…
I’m Fariba Carr and I head up the Membership Office, here at the Institute. Together with my team, I have the great privilege of finding, recruiting,…
The country’s best FE colleges are those that successfully focus on delivering their skills and education agenda while being at the heart of their communities.…
Poll of over 1000 senior business leaders on the apprenticeship levy. New research into business attitudes towards the apprenticeship levy system found that almost 1…
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