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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Quality is at the heart of the changes we are making to the apprenticeship system. Our aim has been to fundamentally reform what apprenticeships…
The increasing sophistication of automated systems will have far-reaching implications for work and employment, and governments should be ready for upheaval. “WHO IS READY FOR…
The NUS Poverty Commission today (23 Apr) published their report, “Class dismissed: Getting in and getting on in further and higher education“. NUS established the…
“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one . . . just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve…
Reports in the media of underspent adult allocations by colleges, and conversely colleges who have over delivered being denied money, makes very poor reading for…
After Brexit, there are many challenges that Britain is facing on a daily basis and a lack of a sufficiently skilled labour force is one…
We have consistently highlighted the risks around unequal access and inconsistent quality that Reform’s report on the Apprenticeship Levy, “The Great Training Robbery: assessing the…
This is part 5 and the final section on the FE News daily analysis of the Reform report on the Apprenticeship Levy. Now that the…
As we take a moment to look back on the past year of Apprenticeship Levy funding, amid mixed reports and opinions in the press, could…
This is part 4 of a daily analysis of the Reform report on the Apprenticeship Levy that FE News are running this week. Not only…
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