100,000 placements is a welcome start. Who helps young people get to day one? In thirty-five years working in careers guidance, I have watched a...
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...
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The employer levy is fast approaching and this will soon shape the way many employers fund their apprenticeships. With 20,000 employers having to pay the…
As an employer, I am well aware of the skills gaps so many industries are facing. Recruiting is often a challenge and finding the right…
Kensington & Chelsea College, a Further and Higher Education College, committed to maintaining specialist provision for the arts, offers a range of full and part-time…
Recent research by the Chartered Institute for Management Accounts (CIMA) found that eight out of 10 school leavers ‘lack essential business skills’ and that this…
Currently only 1% of Apprentices are on the new standards, and are thus being assessed formally at the end of their Apprenticeship. As the SFA…
A recurring question students will always have is how can they win the revision battle? With revision timetables being issued shortly for mock exams and…
There is a view that the success of an interim lies in deciding from the outset exactly what you want to achieve and what gap…
The title is a thing often said but it is not acted upon sadly. Let’s start now. The older I get the more I resent…
Training and employment providers have given an unreserved welcome to the government’s Prison Safety and Reform White Paper. Some AELP members have been lobbying for…
It’s your first day as a runner in a film studio. You have a challenging to-do list, and as you run through the various sets…
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