When organisations think about online exams, the conversation usually centres around question design, candidate experience or proctoring. Infrastructure is rarely the starting point, but in...
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...
“ In a recent YouGov poll, just over two-thirds of employers admitted to saying that school and college leavers lack the necessary practical skills valued…
“ Qualifications across Europe are to be recognised in a unified framework for employers and individuals, following proposals put forward by Brussels” education chief Jan…
With A-level results still potent in many minds, FE News invited Ken Warman, formerly Director at Tower Hamlets College, East London, to share his views.…
Politicians are often asked how we would spend vast budgets, which taken at face value are inconceivable. How would I spend £11 billion? Well, I…
“ Approximately 2 million full-time workers look set to reap the benefits of a legal loophole being closed next October, as plans to increase annual…
“ The government will be investing nearly £7 million to attract an additional 30,000 non-EU students into further education by 2011. Addressing delegates at the…
“ I would very much welcome a healing of the academic/vocational divide in this country, because I believe that it has bedevilled us for far…
“ Two thirds of women prisoners have drug, alcohol and mental health problems which can prevent them from learning new skills whilst incarcerated. The Learning…
“ A new document sent to the Government this month recommends an initiative to support the teaching of science, maths and technical subjects in schools.…
“ The Association of Learning Providers (ALP) will today announce that they have successfully allocated £1.5 million worth of funding to support e-learning. The Learning…
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