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 National Careers Service is a nationally branded careers and skills advice service that is available free to adults and young people in England. Anyone…
The Work and Pensions Committee report says the Government’s new youth employment programme, the Youth Obligation, must be unlinked from Universal Credit. The link makes…
Justine Greening, Secretary State for Education, announced today that The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) and The Education Funding Agency (EFA) are to merge to become one…
New agency to provide joined-up education and skills funding The Education Funding Agency and Skills Funding Agency are to merge to become one body, the…
Earlier this year Holly Broadhurst, a Design Engineer from JCB Compact Products won the Higher and Degree Apprentice of the Year Award at the National…
The Tories in London have turned their back on apprenticeships and are selling short our talented and ambitious young people. I’m campaigning to be…
The register of approved training providers RoATP has now been published and the dust is beginning to settle. We thought it might be time to…
The government’s industrial strategy has reaffirmed its commitment to developing the technical, engineering and construction skills our country needs to maintain a competitive edge. The…
Following the publication of the first Register of Apprenticeship Training Providers (RoATP), the rigor of the SFA’s selection process has come under fire, but is…
The promised new qualifications achievement rates dashboard (QAR) for apprenticeships, education and training may have been delayed but the role of technology and more specifically,…
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