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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A settlement has been reached ahead of the judicial review hearing over the Government’s decision to grant permission for a new school sixth form in…
The Government’s failure to address inadequacies in careers guidance is unacceptable and Ministers must act to improve provision as a matter of urgency to ensure…
Training boss Mark Dawe has challenged ministers to use the Chancellor’s spending review to step up their investment in skills programmes essential to give a…
Teaching practice has come a long way from its earliest predecessors and since lecturing staff are at the centre of everything that goes on in…
The Technical and Further Education Bill proposals were published today. The bill builds upon measures set out in the government’s post-16 skills plan, developed in response…
“The business community sees the Apprenticeship Levy as a way to solve skills shortages, with concerns raised about levels of understanding of the challenges and opportunities…
As our previous news released this morning highlighted, the Government have now finalised the details of the Apprenticeship reforms so it is all systems go…
AELP CEO Mark Dawe said: AELP is pleased that the government were true to their word and treated the apprenticeship consultation as just that…
Speaking following the Government’s U turn on apprenticeship funding proposals, Gordon Marsden, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Apprenticeships said: ‘The Government have had to make a…
I’m a member of the Society for Education and Training (SET) and this last year I undertook professional formation at Barnsley College to gain my…
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