When Prime Minister-in-waiting Andy Burnham walks into Number 10- be that Downing Street or the ‘Number 10 of the north’ in Manchester- what should his...
The idea that a career in research is becoming obsolete is easy to understand. It is also wrong, but not for the reasons you might expect. Behind the debate about research careers lies a more...
It’s Youth Employment Week, and in a special feature for FE News, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members Adrian Wookey,...
Aspiring marketers are set to enter the industry at a challenging, but exciting time. Competition for jobs may only become greater, with the recent Milburn...
Picture this. A member of your teaching staff is three weeks into a formal performance improvement process. Observations have been graded as requiring improvement. You...
This is Part One of three on the under-sixteen social media ban: how we got here, whether it is right and what comes next. On...
This was my fifth AELP National Conference and it's safe to say I've never experienced one quite like it. It was certainly the hottest, but...
In November 2025, in schools and colleges across England, well over 160,000 GCSE English and Maths entries were sat in the autumn series, a figure...
Yusuf Ibrahim, Vice Principal at CAVC, takes Alan Milburn's interim review as a starting point and asks what the Welsh data really tells us about...
Andy Burnham hasn't become Prime Minister yet. His speech at the People's History Museum in Manchester this afternoon reads less like a leadership pitch and...
As the fifth annual National Apprenticeship Week draws to a close, now seems like a good time to catch our collective breath, and reflect on…
For those of us who work to tackle youth unemployment, the government’s pledge to promote and fund more Apprenticeships places is a hugely welcome commitment…
Apprentices from eight of the UK’s leading employers are going head to head to become the ‘apprentice team of the year’ in a new contest…
The funding maze is out and yes it provides challenges but it also gives a clear indication of a difficult future for learning in general.…
There has been a lot of discussion about the likely impact of the spending review on both the HE and FE Sectors. NIACE has emphasised…
The National Audit Office published its report into adult apprenticeships yesterday, highlighting rapid expansion in adult apprenticeships over the last year. With a 140%…
Despite recent adverse publicity, independent training providers have welcomed today’s record apprenticeship success rates as a clear indicator that the apprenticeship programme has been a…
Hundreds of students at Preston College in Lancashire are celebrating the opening of a brand new £5 million visual and performing arts facility. Around 500…
One of the country’s largest solar power systems has been installed at a sixth form college in the Midlands. Bilborough College in Nottingham has had…
The latest funding allocations to FE colleges and institutions in Wales demonstrate the government’s continuous support for skills funding, according to Welsh education charity ColegauCymru…
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