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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With more than 30 million people expected to attend a football league match this season, NCFE, one of the UK’s leading qualification providers, is now…
Following the launch of the main political parties” manifestos last week, the Association of Colleges has released its” own manifesto. Further Education has become a…
As the Foster Review is published, the Association of Colleges (AoC) welcomed it as a “thoughtful, perceptive and comprehensive” project. The Review, conducted with openness…
As common as it is to encounter the view that the youth of today simply does not care about politics, the environment or in fact…
The Prof IT 2006 Conference, in London, saw the launch of a new initiative to help promote I.T. expertise for the British Computer Society (BCS).…
The Government will treble the number of employment advisers in GP surgeries and pilot a new £8m advice and support service for smaller businesses as…
Sir Andrew Foster has stood by his review at the same time as attempting to smooth ruffled feathers at the AoC annual conference on Tuesday.…
Living in one of the G8 countries, the phrase “migration of skills and intellectual labour” can often be replaced with a more common sobriquet ““…
A new report has been published recently by the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA), demonstrating that the future could be bleak for the UK’s productivity…
The final day of this year’s Association of Colleges (AoC) Conference is drawing to a close, and what remains is a slight feeling of shell…
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