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 students at British Computer Society (BCS) centres will be able to monitor their ITQ progress with an online self-assessment program from e-skills UK. A…
The Government has recently published a White Paper which outlines opportunities for development within the Further Education sector. The documents, entitled “Further Education: Raising Skills,…
A partnership between an Edinburgh college and three NHS health boards have proved “the right medicine” to deal with a shortage of pharmacy technicians. Edinburgh’s…
The Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) have announced the launch of a new E-Assessment Award open to all ages from 2006. This award will cover…
The body responsible for post-16 learning in the UK has accepted and welcomed the release of yesterday’s House of Commons report on the state of…
The Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI) may have a limited shelf life as an independent organisation, with the merger with Ofsted growing ever closer. Even so,…
A new initiative to help Scotlands colleges and universities meet the skills needs of the energy industry will be launched this autumn by the Scottish…
At the recent Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) conference at the London Hilton Metropole hotel, various representatives of organisations within the FE sector came…
A Lincolnshire college has extended its international partnership with the Chinese by introducing a new journalism degree to be studied in England and China. The…
The Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education has found a better use for its redundant computer equipment. Rather than simply throwing away literally a…
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