Young people not in education, employment or training have often missed out on opportunities to develop essential employment skills. The Nuffield Foundation has launched a...
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...
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It is a debate that has raged for years, a talking point for the Government, unions, schools, colleges, teachers and parents – and I imagine…
Andy Powell, chief executive of Edge, talks to FE News at ALP Forum for Employment & Skills. Edge is an independent education foundation dedicated to raising…
University Hospitals of NHS Trust, Leicester Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Outstanding: Grade 1 Capacity to improve Good: Grade 2 Achievement and standards…
2008 was a record year for Apprenticeships. A quarter of a million new apprentices started in England, and the number has more than trebled in…
The recent budget is typically Brownite in its emphasis on money for education and training. The Chancellor pledged to provide additional funding for training and…
The college building crisis, which saw 144 projects put on hold last year because of a chronic gap in funding, was the result of “inadequate…
The number of bogus plumbing courses is increasing, warns SummitSkills, the Sector Skills Council for building services engineering. As the economic downturn forces many to…
City College Norwich was celebrating yesterday after picking up this year’s prestigious President Award at the AoC Beacon Awards ceremony in London. Paralympic gold medalist…
Skillsmart Retail, the sector skills council for retail, has welcomed the move from the Scottish Parliament to drastically increase the number of Apprenticeship places in…
Gordon Brown has announced plans to pay employers “golden hellos” of up to £2,500 for every person they trained who had been unemployed for more…
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