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...
If you were to ask me what I associate with the month of November, high up on the list would be the AoC Conference in…
Discussions over whether government initiatives are working for getting education leavers into the workplace, and more importantly keeping them there (for example through the apprenticeship…
Cuts to 16-18 college funding are “unjust and unsustainable”, according to the president of the Association of Colleges (AoC). Speaking at the AoC’s annual conference…
For most people having a home and a job are two of the most fundamental factors in feeling happy and secure. Yet in the past…
With changes to the Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS) being introduced in April 2015, research from Wesleyan has shown two thirds of teachers are worried they…
Education Funding Agency (EFA) chief executive Peter Lauener is set to also head the Skills Funding Agency (SFA) from next Monday, the government has announced.…
Security services firm G4S has joined the government’s Apprenticeship Trailblazers initiative to help develop new industry-specific skills. The move will address the disconnect between those…
The 157 Group association of colleges has unveiled its vision for the future of FE policy, centred on stable structures, equal treatment, freedom to innovate…
More than 700 employers are to help design 76 new Apprenticeships as part of the trailblazers scheme, the government has announced. The new courses range…
In [a recent article ‘Colleges must start delivering relevant courses with good careers advice‘, NEF: The Innovation Institute CEO] Professor Sa’ad Medhat was quoted criticising, among…
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