Term has started, and colleges are still settling timetables and filling gaps in delivery. It's a good moment to look at who's teaching under subcontracted...
Adult learners are already investing in new careers; policy should turn that commitment into a connected journey from entry-level competence to higher technical progression. The...
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...
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The Department for Education (DfE) have confirmed that learners who do not achieve grade 4 or grade D in GCSE English and Maths will have…
Here are Papworth Trust’s top ten recommendations… We recommend an automatic entry route back onto Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) for claimants who have fallen…
New levy to double annual investment in home-grown skills The government is officially launching its apprenticeship levy today (6 April 2017) as part of the…
Sam Sleight explains how to become an End Point Assessor, the changes that are happening to Apprenticeships and the role of an Assessor: There has…
ACCIDENTS CAN’T BE PREVENTED! I realise that the word accident is usually applied to any kind of unwanted and unpleasant incident but accident has a…
Company culture. Organisational culture. Corporate culture. Whatever the name, there used to be a time when you could take one look at the name of…
With the introduction of the Apprenticeship levy next month, there has never been a more exciting time within further education. Apprenticeships are set to get…
Apprenticeship Levy and three million ‘starts’ target need sectoral and regional focus The Government’s flagship apprenticeships policies have a worrying lack of focus and will…
It is really quite satisfying that radical reform, and the ambition that this has got is not being led by ministers – or anyone in…
The Spending Review and Autumn Statement 2015 made clear the Government’s intention to accelerate the process of ceding more responsibility for delivering a range of…
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