Long-time observers of the UK skills system are prone to wearily observing that it is fragmented, complex and a victim of policy inconsistency over time....
According to the Student Mental Health Study, 37% of first-year university students show moderate-to-severe anxiety or depression. This is nearly double the national rate for...
The biggest challenges facing the further education workforce are no great secret. Pay remains a big concern. Funding pressures limit what colleges can offer, while recruitment difficulties...
For years, employers have been telling us that something fundamental is missing in the labour market. Not technical skills, although those matter enormously, but the...
The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has topped one million for the first time since 2013. Alan Milburn's independent...
Ladi Mohammed and Shani Wijemuni discuss how you turn better understanding of the skills an economy needs into better decisions by people, employers, and training...
A member of your team discloses a neurodivergent condition. You do the right thing. You agree to an adjustment. You understandably feel that the difficult...
The new Burnham led government has only been in power for a couple of months but it has already done enough to indicate that it...
I read three things recently that felt worth pulling together, if only to highlight them rather than fully make sense of them. The first was...
V Levels could offer something the post-16 system badly needs: greater flexibility for young people who want vocational learning without having to specialise as early...
As a new series of the ultimate in trash television prepares its latest onslaught on the boundaries of acceptable human behaviour, we are reminded of…
“ Further Education is as hard at work as ever in proving that it maintains its position as market leader in providing flexible learning solutions…
“ Reacting to the Education Bill, which is to be voted on later today in the House of Commons, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has…
“ Today will see the start of the latest round of talks between the Association of Colleges (AoC) and Further Education staff for the approaching…
“ Proposals to increase equality and fairness are like “trying to nail jelly to the wall.” No, we are not in school anymore. And neither,…
“ Ruth Kelly MP, the Secretary of State for Education, recently gave a speech at the TUC Union Academy Conference. She spoke of the Government’s…
“ Time and technology wait for no man. No sooner has one range of software or brand of mobile phone come out then another has…
“ The Strategic Forum for Construction (SFfC) releases its fourth report on Health and Safety Performance in the Construction Industry for 2004-2005. Since the Safety…
“ To fashion a spin analogous to our present government, recent statistics would have you believe that the percentage of our workforce educated, skilled and…
“ The provision of free training for 19-25 yr olds seems an important point of the paper. It has to be acknowledged that, for many…
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