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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Chatbot Ada Talks Up A Storm For Bolton College Bolton is one of the first UK colleges to have introduced a chatbot, which uses artificial…
Are your employees happy? It’s a question that employers increasingly need to ask themselves. With the UK’s employment rate at an incredibly high 76.1% and…
If you create, consume or manage online learning materials on a learning management system (LMS); have you considered how a chatbot or a voice first…
Furhat Robotics, an artificial intelligence and social robotics company based in Stockholm, revealed its latest creation, Tengai, last week. How would you feel if your…
Following the change in the apprenticeship system in 2017, a new target was set to hit 3 million new starts by 2020. However, recent reports…
UK universities punch well above their weight when it comes to attracting students from overseas. In response to a joint report, “The UK’s tax revenues…
Education providers have very different challenges today than they did thirty years ago. With the rapid development of technology and the growth in smartphone adoption,…
We all know of instances where individuals have fallen victim to the digital barrier. Those that were born before 1990 weren’t brought up surrounded by…
When you build a digital service does that make it a different thing to the rest of the service? The National Careers Service has spent…
Apprenticeship training providers have called for the radical step of removing the highest and degree level apprenticeships from the scope of levy funding in order…
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