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...
“Future Government funding for ESOL classes will be targeted at immigrants planning to settle in the UK rather than short-term economic migrants.Launching a consultation, the…
“The Campaign for Learning will be signing the National Skills Pledge in front of Skills Minister David Lammy MP, to mark a decade of the…
“Adults wishing to gain basic literacy and numeracy qualifications are now being offered more opportunities to do so through the launch of online Entry Level…
“A revolutionary open-topped retro sports car, the Jetstream J1, hand-built by twenty motor vehicle students of Cornwall College, Camborne, together with a local company, went…
“After winning votes from 60% of British colleges, Dr David Collins, Principal of South Cheshire College, has become the inaugural President of the Association of…
“Figures out today show the highest quarterly growth in the number of people in work since 1997. In the three months to November 2007, 175,000…
“Employment experts in the public, private and voluntary sectors are to be paid to not only help the unemployed into jobs but to keep them…
The ALI has just published an in-depth review of equality opportunities for learners who are over 16. Its key findings saw a significant improvement from…
“ When the country China is mentioned in the FE sector in this country, it seems to be inexorably accompanied by any from a set…
“ That he was appointed Director General of the Lifelong Learning and Skills Directorate within the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in September 2005…
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