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...
“ Figures released by the Government show that a school sixth form’s A-level performance is directly related to its size: the smaller the school sixth…
“ The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) have been keen supporters of vocational apprenticeships and one teenager who has benefited from such a scheme is…
“ Results from a survey conducted in 2005 have revealed that England’s skills gap has narrowed by almost half. The survey shows that the number…
“ Disappointment, Anger and Outrage, to quote just a few, were the emotions expressed by each and every one of the six Further Education unions…
“ Delegates at the Association of Learning Providers” (ALP’s) “Partner’s in Learning 2006” conference held at London Stansted Airport received copies of the Learning and…
“ Education in Britain has become a booming export business. Universities are expanding both their offshore and online programmes to meet the demand of foreign…
“ For the last twenty years the Association for Language Learning (ALL) has been running the biggest annual conference for the language practitioners from all…
“ A novel approach to bringing adults back to education has seen a Lancashire-led project short-listed for an award. The “Tell Us Your Story” project…
“ Christopher Banks has a unique insight into the gender equality in further education, writes Sarah Chard, Diversity and Equality Correspondent for FE News, both…
“ A man who taught himself to be a signwriter and formed his owned company has gone into partnership with his former college, New College…
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