Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the UK economy, yet encouraging more of them to participate in apprenticeships remains a challenge. While much...
As we await Alan Milburn’s final review of young people and work, much of the debate has understandably focused on the scale of youth inactivity,...
A college can achieve a strong staff survey response rate and still fail to hear from some of the people it most needs to understand....
In a special feature for FE News to mark Get the Nation Learning Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members...
The Government’s Youth Guarantee is a welcome recognition that too many young people are being left behind. But if it is to succeed over the...
Picture a meeting that covers a change to timetables, a new adjustments plan, or a restructure proposal. Everyone nods. Actions are agreed. Then, over the...
There has been increased debate over youth participation in education and employment, and the scale of the challenge is undeniable. Nearly one million young people...
Every November the Department for Education counts the school workforce, and every year the headline is about teachers. This year's count, published last month, is...
Think about the young people leaving further education this year. One might be heading to university. Another is starting an apprenticeship. One is going straight...
The forthcoming Budget and the Milburn Review will bring further focus onto participation, opportunity and workforce development; apprenticeships are once again set to occupy a...
Earlier this month at the Conservative Party Conference, the Lifelong Education Commission – on which I serve as an independent commissioner – launched its first…
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…
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