The funded management ladder has gone. Team Leader at Level 3, Operations Manager at Level 5, Chartered Manager at Level 6, Coaching Professional, Improvement Practitioner,...
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...
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You will have heard the saying ‘price is what you pay, value is what you get’. Well, various reports have recently highlighted the fact that…
As the owner and lead recruiter at Carson Recruitment, there’s one question in particular I get asked a lot: How do I write the perfect CV?…
Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we take a look back through time at the 22nd September in the year: 2016: Devolution and localism: what will…
The unintended consequences of the Apprenticeship Reforms on the social equality of the young and the most disadvantaged. Time to act before a generation is…
Millions of pounds of apprenticeship levy money, aimed at increasing the vocational skills of the nation, is apparently going unused by businesses. According to new research by Evolve Learning Group Ltd and…
Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we take a look back through time at the 15th September in the year: 2016: Functional Skills Funding – The…
Today, (12 Sept), the National Audit Office (NAO) has published their report, “Retaining and developing the teaching workforce” on teacher recruitment and retention. Kevin Courtney,…
Falling learner numbers, Ofsted inspections in the news for all the wrong reasons, pauses and restarts to the ESFA tendering process… anyone would think that…
The Autumn Budget is scheduled to take place in November; the first Autumn Budget held since 1996. Ahead of this, AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians)…
Welcome to Flashback Friday, where we take a look back through time at the 8th September in the year: 2016: Apprentices can earn up to…
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