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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A new report from Becta, Harnessing technology: Realising the benefits, shows there is a real potential to learn from colleges with the capacity to make…
The Association of Learning Providers is calling for more focus on skills training in Government efforts to curb the sharp surge in unemployment. Speaking at…
A new campaign has been launched to defend adult education, following the loss of 1.5 million learner places in the last two years alone. The…
According to Ofsted, not enough pupils are being taught the sense of mathematics, meaning they are less able to use it confidently at work or…
According to ICS, the distance learning provider, more students are taking up distance learning on their studies and shunning traditional classroom teaching. As pupils across…
As the Association of Learning Providers holds its spring conference, the Government is urged to rethink Foundation Learning Tier. Britain’s vocational learning providers are calling…
Colleges and learning providers invited to become involved Plans for the first day to celebrate vocational success have been launched at a Parliamentary reception. As…
Her new role with the Institute for Learning will begin from next summer The Institute for Learning, the professional body for teachers, trainers and student…
The first Implementation Plan aims to brings together providers and employers. Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK) has facilitated the first Workforce Strategy Implementation Plan in close…
In a measured reaction to the Tomlinson report, the national development organization for literacy, numeracy and related basic skills welcomed the emphasis on basic skills,…
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