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...
“ A new investment in the local Skills Centre in Durham looks set to launch the vehicle industry’s first training centre and apprenticeship scheme in…
“ UNISON, the public services union, has voiced its concern over proposed funding cuts to the Further Education sector. The union fears that the cuts…
Staff and learners at a training organisation in West Yorkshire are over the moon this week after being awarded a grade 2 “good” in five…
“ Adult language learning is popular throughout the UK. CILT, the National Centre for Languages, in collaboration with the Association for Language Learning and NIACE…
“ New research by the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) has shown an increase in apprenticeships being offered by employers and training organisations in…
“ Education Secretary Alan Johnson yesterday announced new appointments to the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA). Principal of Warwickshire College, Ioan Morgan, and David Sherlock…
“ Less than half of 139 colleges surveyed in research undertaken earlier this year offer language-learning opportunities in or alongside vocational courses. Further, the statistics…
Together with other colleges and universities, we recently had a visit from Special Branch asking us to look out for “radicals” as, apparently, the further…
“ Education Minister Bill Rammell writes an exclusive article for FE News on personalisation in post-16 provision. The Minister says: “The idea is simple enough:…
“ The government must increase investment across all skills levels at an annual rate of between £1.5 and £2 billion by 2020. Further, employers should…
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