A decade ago, digital skills were often seen as specialist knowledge. Today, they sit alongside English and maths as essential workplace literacies. Sustainability is now...
Before our sector rushes to introduce apprenticeship quality measures, it’s time we made better use of the strongest public indicator we already have. An industry...
The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction. At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged...
As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market. Having worked in the sector for over 20...
AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work. Increasingly, career development practitioners are using large language models to support guidance sessions and for resource creation...
The Skills White Paper claims colleges have been treated as "second rate" despite impressive results compared to others. Does our misaligned quality model and music...
There is a persistent and costly misunderstanding at the heart of workforce design in Further Education. We continue to measure people against roles that were...
The quality of initial teacher training (ITT) in further education (FE) is again under review, but this time with a sharper regulatory edge. From 2026,...
At Milton Keynes, we were the first FE College Group in the country to receive the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) inspection, and I’m delighted to...
Geoffrey Hinton and I have something in common. We both studied and worked in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence department at the University of...
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In the latest episode from the ETF podcast, Paul Tully, Head of Professionalism at the ETF, is joined by training expert, Tony Davis. They discuss…
Ufi has funded a number of very exciting Health and Social Care projects over the last five years. Learners in this sector very often fit…
New Podcast In Award-winning #right2food Series Released On Free School Meals And Why They Matter (@Food_Foundation) The Food Foundation’s Right2Food podcast began in Lockdown as…
Hosted by Gavin O’Meara and Leo Webster (Assessment Product Manager, NCFE), we invited Jack Edwards (Academy Director, Swift) and Mike Blakely (Exeter College) to discuss how we…
This week for the ION Stories podcast, @MorwennaStewart talks with Nathan Whitbread who is founder of The Neurodivergent Coach (@TheNDcoach). Nathan is a coach, trainer, consultant and…
By the BFELG: #AntiRacismInAction: Wales with Dr Maxine Room CBE, Guy Lacey and Mike James Aired today Monday 25th October, Episode 4 of 9 BFELG…
This week @WhatTheTrigMath talks to Martin Newton from MEI (@MEIMaths). Martin has been in FE for many years (his words!) and now works with colleges on bringing the…
Welcome to episode one of the Neurodiverse Life podcast from @Cognassist: In our first episode, Helen Wilson is joined by Gavin O’Meara, CEO and Head of Digital at FE News and host of the…
@WeAreJoyFM is back with an #FE Special. An inspirational listen to @Suleman_Hina. Hina shares her journey into academia, her working class background and the impact…
There is growing international consensus that young people need to develop a broader range of knowledge, skills, mindsets and behaviours to help them thrive at…
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