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...
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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...
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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...
“ At today’s conference for the Association of Learning Providers (ALP) in Hinckley, an agreement is to be announced that seems set to usher in…
“ The proposed merger of the two largest post ““ school teaching unions that was aired at their conferences last year seems to be moving…
“ UNISON, the public service union, has joined NATFHE, the college lecturers” union and the Association of Colleges (AoC) in drawing attention to funding cuts…
The Learning and Skills Council’s (LSC’s) “Sustainable Development in the Learning and Skills Sector” is the research conducted following on from the Sustainable Development Strategy,…
“ There has been a great deal of emphasis placed upon supplying students and indeed learners of all ages with the skills they would require…
“ The future of Britain’s public sector is a question that leaves the public consciousness approximately as often as reality television is not raised in…
“ Being Education and Skills Secretary is generally acknowledged as a very tricky temperature of root vegetable to tackle nowadays. The public services are often…
“ This week saw the announcement that James Dyson, the British engineer, is to found a new academy of design and innovation in order to…
“ The provision of better training for people working within care homes took a significant step forward, thanks to the work of the Open College…
“ A roll call of retail heavyweights have put their impetus into launching a new framework for National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) and Scottish Vocational Qualifications…
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