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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In the dating world, it’s the dreaded term that has come to mean one person cutting off another entirely, without reason. But now ‘ghosting’ has…
Short Attention Span: Hiring Often Neglecting the Future by Focusing on Fulfilling Immediate Needs, Dynamic changes in business and a lack of focus on the future…
Pearson and NCFE have been awarded contracts to deliver the first three T Levels from 2020. A major milestone was reached today (13 February) as…
We get a lot of people asking us how to become an External Quality Assurer #EQA, and it’s easy to see why. EQA is one…
The hard yards of transformation Don’t assume that new levels of performance will always mean new staff. Leaders should look to unleash and grow the…
The digitisation of the workplace is not some distant future loosely imagined, it is here now. Our education system exists to equip people with the…
Constant and substantial changes in the policy context make setting strategy in a further education college incredibly difficult. Leaders should chart their own course. Strategy…
The Chair of the Education Select Committee, Robert Halfon MP, will call for a radical re-think of England’s education system today (11 February 2019), including…
Particularly given their challenging operating context, the purpose of a further education college is one of the most powerful tools which leaders can use to…
Deemed to be a national crisis by some industry experts and costing the UK economy £1.5 billion a year according to a report published in…
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