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...
In the context of the responsibility for the funding and delivery of offender learning moving to the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), it meant all…
“ UK researchers are to visit Japan on a fact-finding mission to better understand preventative practice for an ageing workforce, lack of raw materials and…
“ 2005 has been a year to remember for Further Education. The sector has been more prominent and successful, and on occasion more turbulent and…
“ The Chair of the Adult Learning Inspectorate (ALI), Richard Handover, has been re ““ appointed by the Education Secretary Ruth Kelly MP, it was…
“ The Learning and Skills Council (LSC), the body responsible for awarding funding in the Further Education sector, have announced the appointment of a new…
“ Many industry sectors seem to be aware of the training and skills issues they face both in recruitment and with existing staff, but are…
“ Senior figures in the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and in the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) have welcomed this month’s publication of…
“ Five new expert members have been announced by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), bringing their expertise to the learning and skills environment. The…
“ More than £315 million of government funding will go to address the startling rise in the percentage of British families unable to afford the…
“ In response to the recent announcement of a cooperative venture with the Instituto Financiero Anaf (I.F.A.) in Spain, Ruth Martin of the Securities and…
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