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...
“ The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have approved plans, put forward by Highbury College, for a massive…
H2O Networks has unveiled a new development in communication links that promises a fast and cheap way to allow education establishments to “set up their…
“ It is quite incredible, when stopping to contemplate rather than leaping with ne”er a glance at the alligator pit ahead, just how much it…
The Grimsby Institute of Further and higher Education has recently celebrated the launch of its latest innovation in learning technologies training. A host of guest…
“ The future of adult and continuing education in London has been a thorny topic for the relevant sector agencies for some time, especially since…
“ The phrase “creative industries” is an interesting one, writes Jethro Marsh for FE News, largely because it seems to fight itself in its very…
“ Batten down the hatches, writes Vijay Pattni for FE News: “The Legislator” is on the rampage again, smelling fresh blood in the air. The…
“ With regards to the Every Child Matters reform agenda, what comes across as striking ““ according to the report – are “the possible changes…
“ An elderly grandmother and her fifty year old daughter have passed the UK’s only online English Language A-level taught at The Sheffield College. Betty…
“ In a bid to improve the experience that spectators have of attending a sporting event, SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for Sport and…
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