While the headlines this year have gone to pathways and funding, the deepest apprenticeship reform is happening in a corner of the system most commentary...
Ten academic years ago, I wrote for FE News about challenging stereotypes, inspired by the late MP Jo Cox. As another academic year begins, I...
Almost a million young people in the UK are not in education, employment, or training (NEET). That’s a grim milestone that’s only marginally dropped in the latest quarter according to the ONS....
“Employers are far more likely to engage when they believe the organisation contacting them understands the commercial environment in which they operate.” We cannot solve...
The financial pressures facing UK higher education have reached a point where we need to ask a more fundamental question: is the problem simply that universities...
Higher and degree apprenticeships should be one of the most powerful drivers of social mobility. They offer the chance to earn while learning, gain real...
The hiring and recruitment space is experiencing more change than ever before. Just under a million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK are now out...
Last week brought a welcome signal that the government is ready to rethink GCSE maths resits. Education Secretary Lucy Powell acknowledged that failing to get...
In a few short weeks, tens of thousands of young people fresh from receiving their A-level and BTEC results will head off to university to...
As August draws to a close, Further Education settles into a particular rhythm. INSET days land in the final week of the month, enrolment week...
As FE budgets are increasingly hit by funding cuts the need to save money is imperative. But the low hanging fruit has already been harvested,…
After years of the government supporting apprenticeships (in rhetoric, at least), Ed Miliband has stuck his oar in, promising to make apprenticeships a key plank…
I like to think that I am a pretty canny shopper. I have honed these abilities over the years so that I know exactly the…
Bespoke solutions are not the only options when it comes to cloud computing in educational institutions. The hybrid cloud is accessible, secure and future-proof; could…
Should our soon to be ‘future employees’, namely our pupils and students that are about to leave education, step away from the ‘norm’ of seeking…
I’m told that Sun Tzu’s Art of War is required reading at Westpoint and Sandhurst. But can the 2500 year old lessons allegedly written by…
The government looks set to move away from a direct funding model for Apprenticeships after a consultation showed employers prefer to be given “purchasing power”…
Looking back over 2014 I remain consistently encouraged by the strength of innovation through adversity that college principals can show. With such pressure on funding,…
2014 seems to have been a particularly busy year for the Edge Foundation. With our 10 Year Anniversary, 7th annual VQ Day, University Technical Colleges…
At this time last year, I considered what the picture of teacher training was going to look like for the year ahead. Now, as we…
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