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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Nadhim Zahawi, Minister for Children and Families, spoke at the launch of a landmark package of support for young people leaving care: I am delighted…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Weekly Journal Edition #467 I have gone with Alice Barnard’s title “Educators need to be ‘more pirate’”, as I think we…
The Education Policy Institute has just released an 85 page document which purports to be a rigorous academic study of University Technical Colleges (UTCs). Its…
In March, the Department for Education asked us to introduce a membership charge for further education organisations in England. Since then, we’ve been talking with every…
There have been 369,700 apprenticeship starts reported to date between August 2017 and July 2018 for the 2017/18 academic year, and provides the provisional full…
Yesterday saw the launch of results from Youth Employment UK’s Youth Voice Census, a survey capturing the experiences of 1,498 14-24 year olds transitioning between…
England’s six million young people stay in education for longer than previous generations, and most find their feet in the world of work. But too…
We are less than a week away from the final budget to be delivered before the UK leaves the EU and already we are feeling…
Against a backdrop of daily information about the crisis in our education system, and with recent figures suggesting FE colleges are short of approximately 20,000…
Effective self-assessment and the improvement plan that shakes out from it, is a mechanism for developing provision; not simply a document to satisfy Ofsted. Louise…
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