Andy Burnham's call to put technical education at the heart of the national conversation is a welcome one. His proposal to expand technical pathways and...
Today, thousands of our learners across the country will open their Level 3 and T Level results and take another important step on their career...
Results day is the starting point – not the finish line: how parents and carers can support young people this summer For many families, results...
There are very few moments in a career when you quietly sit back and think, "We've finally got there." Last week was one of those...
Andy Burnham means business. Two weeks into the job, the new Prime Minister has promised to end rough sleeping, fix social care, cap energy bills...
It seems everyone in Greater Manchester has an Andy Burnham Story. Mine starts backstage at Parklife festival in 2017. I was fortunate enough to be...
Employers understand the need for skills. They experience recruitment pressures, changing technology and gaps in workforce capability directly. What many understand less clearly, is how...
The Breaking Barriers report is absolutely right to focus on building more bridges into work for young people and moving the debate away from cliff...
On Tuesday last week, the Prime Minister announced plans to put technical education on an equal footing with academic study. There was more focus on...
In the first three months of 2026, the number of young people in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEETs) passed...
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition #468 Today is FE Soundbite’s 9th birthday! The budget dominated the news this week. Particularly the 50% reduction in SME’s…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Weekly Journal Edition #467 I have gone with Alice Barnard’s title “Educators need to be ‘more pirate’”, as I think we…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition #466 This week was Colleges Week and Love our Colleges. It is great to have weeks like this, I also…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition #465 It is with great sadness that we heard that 3aaa is no more… That is a lot of specialists within…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition #464 You couldn’t escape the Tory Party Conference in the news today. It appears my old MP Geoffrey Cox nearly…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition #463 We hope you had a great week. Team UK are away in Budapest, Hungary for EuroSkills… so we wish…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition #462 We hope you had a great week. Funding took centre stage again: Severe squeeze on further education and sixth-form…
Well the biggest news this week for us internally at FE News, was that we launched the new FE Careers and Apprenticeship Job Search to…
I hope you had a great week. I have just returned from an amazing All Inclusive Holiday, problem is… I have been hitting the gym…
This week we saw A Level and BTEC results released this week, entries into STEM subjects continue to rise and we have a budding bunch of Mathletes…
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