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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Alison Morris, Director of Sector Development at the Education and Training Foundation, outlines how Taking Teaching Further – a Department for Education-funded initiative – will…
Last week, I chaired my very first event – App4England‘s Celebrating Women in Apprenticeships Conference. To say I was nervous would be an understatement. Getting…
How far linked are mental health and financial security? Your financial security could be impacting your mental health. For example, if you don’t have enough…
Charlotte Sword from Foster and Partners chaired the Architecture Trailblazer group which developed new Architectural Assistant and Architect apprenticeships. We asked her and the group to…
The rise of self-employment has been a key characteristic of western economies since the turn of the century. In the United Kingdom, the number of self-employed…
Responding to media reporting about potential delays to the full roll-out of T-Level qualifications, John Cope, CBI Head of Education and Skills, said: “A technical…
Employers across the country have been spending their apprenticeship levy for a year now. As with all the reforms, the apprenticeship levy was met with mixed reviews when…
Teacher training development is actually a big thing, we will need 35,000 new teachers a year, slightly more than that now I guess. Very easy…
In teaching, success is measured by other people’s achievements; hardly a surprise then that the annual Students of the Year Awards is for me, and…
DfE today (12 Jul) published their latest Apprenticeships and Traineeships Aug-April 2017/18 statistical release. There have been 290,500 apprenticeship starts reported to date between August…
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