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...
Law is considered one of the most lucrative industries in today’s employment market but as Des Hudson, chief executive of the Law Society, once warned,…
Enterprise skills will become as important as English and maths as the number of self employed workers rises to its highest in 40 years, according…
Imagine a profession where every day poses new challenges, where you talk to people from all walks of life, and your workplace is a market…
The proportion of pupils getting a grade C or better at GCSE has increased for the first time in three years but there has been…
A lack of foreign language skills is costing the economy £48bn a year as the number of French A-level entries falls to a record low,…
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has accused the government of “turning the clock back on social mobility” through reforms such as the scrapping of AS…
It’s a tough time to be young. On the one hand youths in the UK have never had more opportunities. Thousands of career options exist,…
Nearly one in four school and college leavers did not have enough information to make informed choices about their next steps, according to a survey…
Employers must act now to avoid a skills crisis as a new poll shows 43% of them believe it could happen in the next 12…
The Work Programme is failing people with multiple and complex needs and must work closer with charities to gain their expertise, according to the National…
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