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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From the 1st August, ConstructionSkills will provide employers with an increased level of financial support, in excess of £9,400 in CITB-ConstructionSkills Grant, to help them…
Following the debate that has raged with particular vehemence in the past ten days, with the Association of Colleges (AoC) releasing a statement of Government…
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…
More than two-thirds of students polled for a survey feel that colleges should provide for an individual’s faith needs. Further, 66% felt a greater sense…
CEL and NEAFE publish report on making space for faith in FE Report: “Making space for faith: values, beliefs and faiths in the learning and…
Vocational Diplomas should contain faith tests in the curriculum, according to a recent report identifying student and staff attitudes towards culture. Speaking exclusively to FE…
The long term skills policy framework for employers and adults, the recommendations for a culture of learning and the ambitious basic skills and Level 2/3…
The Languages Review A government adviser has said that languages should become a “standard part” of the National Curriculum for primary schools. Nearly 10 years…
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