Ensuring that the further education (FE) sector has a high-quality teaching workforce is critical to the government’s ambitions for the sector and its wider industrial...
One of the strangest things about the current AI conversation is how quickly people jump from “this tool improves efficiency” to “human judgement is now...
Further education colleges across the UK continue to demonstrate resilience and ingenuity in the face of sustained financial pressure. While funding remains constrained and costs...
The SEND Transition Collective, convened by the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) in partnership with FE News, brought together senior practitioners, policy advisors, and FE...
The reform of technical education in England has reached a pivotal moment. With T Levels now established across the post-16 landscape, attention is turning to...
There’s a belief that AI will somehow fix educational marketing. That by automating outreach, refining targeting and increasing output, institutions will naturally see better engagement...
As devolution reshapes England’s skills system and the second iteration of LSIPs comes into focus, attention is rightly turning to how regional ambition becomes delivery. Suzanne Slater, Commercial...
When one in seven young people in the UK are not in education, employment or training (NEET) by the age of 23, this is not just a concerning statistic –...
In further education policy, “closing skills gaps” is often framed as a technical challenge with straightforward solutions: expand provision, add courses, increase qualification levels. It’s...
She did everything right. When she received her ADHD diagnosis in her early forties, she told her employer, followed the correct processes, and waited for...
“ Teaching staff across the nation are bracing themselves for the August onslaught of exam results, as government policies on education look set to spectacularly…
“ Sir Menzies Campbell has blasted Tony Blair’s nine year legacy on poverty, following the Prime Minister’s speech yesterday on social exclusion. “Ming” Campbell noted:…
“ The Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA) has endorsed the announcement of proposals to implement a Europe-wide qualifications framework, as reported on by FE News…
“ International students studying in the UK are more likely to mix with their co-nationals than with other British students. Further, most tended to agree…
“ Over a third of small businesses have failed to provide training for their staff, rising to 40% for the very smallest companies, according to…
“ Colleges have dismissed earlier “demise of science” predictions as alarmist, following a boost to apparent growth trends. Responding to blanket media criticism of falling…
“ 4 million adults would still fall short of the literacy skills expected from an 11-year old child even if the government met its performance…
“ As the Conservative Party conference gets underway, it marks the end of what has been a successful conference season for unionlearn. I have attended…
“ A national language centre in the UK will advise a European Commission on formulating the next stage of its policy on multilingualism. Isabella Moore…
“ The UK and other European nations are falling behind US economic growth because they are failing to invest in research & development, education, and…
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