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...
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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...
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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…
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With over 35 years’ management experience in different sectors, my focus is on promoting excellence and best practice in the construction industry. From the marbled…
Apprentices from across family-owned Swansway Motor Group took part in the Volkswagen Group outward bound course as part of their course. Jack Moore, who is…
There is evidence to suggest that most public service transformations fail – but also that successful transformations share a certain set of characteristics. A 2018…
There is a great deal that college leaders can learn from transformations in other sectors and disciplines which may appear unrelated to further education. I have…
The challenge of doing more with less remains a key consideration for higher education leaders and gradually cloud technologies are becoming established as an innovative…
If you interrogate the data and read the Ofsted reports of poorly performing further education colleges, it is possible to identify a set of common…
There is no doubt that any merger, especially with a college that was in difficulty both financially and in terms of quality, is a serious…
Recent college performance. The performance of further education colleges compares poorly with organisations in the wider education, health and social care sectors… At the end…
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