While many businesses are focused on growth, the underlying challenge is often one of efficiency. Particularly in today’s climate, where budgets are tight and hiring...
A decade ago, digital skills were often seen as specialist knowledge. Today, they sit alongside English and maths as essential workplace literacies. Sustainability is now...
Before our sector rushes to introduce apprenticeship quality measures, it’s time we made better use of the strongest public indicator we already have. An industry...
The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction. At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged...
As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market. Having worked in the sector for over 20...
AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work. Increasingly, career development practitioners are using large language models to support guidance sessions and for resource creation...
The Skills White Paper claims colleges have been treated as "second rate" despite impressive results compared to others. Does our misaligned quality model and music...
There is a persistent and costly misunderstanding at the heart of workforce design in Further Education. We continue to measure people against roles that were...
The quality of initial teacher training (ITT) in further education (FE) is again under review, but this time with a sharper regulatory edge. From 2026,...
At Milton Keynes, we were the first FE College Group in the country to receive the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) inspection, and I’m delighted to...
Congratulations to our Performing Arts students from Newtown College who put on an impressive, high-energy, performance of American Idiot at Hafren Theatre recently. The non-stop…
Today Edge publish its latest research report: Debating the first principles of English vocational education 5. This is the fifth series of online debates and continues…
Students from Barking & Dagenham College were given trophies at the Learner of The Year Awards, an end-of-year celebration event. Each subject area, ranging from…
WaterBear, the pioneering music college with campuses in Sheffield and Brighton and, is excited to announce a brand-new course collaboration with Ditto Music, one of the…
On Thursday, Keir Starmer announced that essential skills such as speaking, teamwork, creativity and problem solving are part of Labour’s education mission, and should form…
Edge Hill University will launch its new Centre for Social Responsibility Research (CSR) at a special lunchtime event bringing together leading academics and researchers. Originally…
United Colleges Group (UCG) is celebrating after its students helped the West London Citizens Living Wage for Health and Social care team win the ‘Campaign…
New analysis has revealed that CEOs working in the higher education sector are among the best in the UK. CEOs of UK universities ranked in…
A NEW college programme will help future-proof multiple industries by training the next generation of digital leaders. Coleg Cambria will launch its new Digital Leadership…
Askham Bryan College has been awarded a government grant of over £1 million to refurbish and develop its main teaching block in preparation for the…
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