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...
Job seeker’s allowance claimants would be forced to sit a test to assess their need for a basic skills course in English, maths or IT…
Dear Deputy Prime Minister Funding Pressures in BIS I am writing to express my concern that the Government appears to be considering significant new…
The education and training sector is being urged to help shape new professional standards aimed at raising the status and profile of teachers, trainers and…
Every year, at the end of summer, FE acts just like corporate lemmings and commits itself to the most stupid action possible. Before I explain…
An innovate programme to give young people virtual work experience in the financial sector is being backed by the government to expand into legal services.…
More than 110 teams from British Airways to Boots Opticians have entered a contest to be crowned as apprentices of the year. Over 1000 apprentices…
The IT skills gap in the UK is widening, this has created a problem for many UK businesses. A shortage of qualified IT technicians and…
Jeremy Sheen, director of information at King Edward VI College, believes that the role parents play in supporting a young person through further education cannot…
Providers frequently ask me to help them source students to join courses or new clients to use the student run gym, salons or restaurant. Sometimes…
The Autumn Statement announced further budget tightening for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BiS) and Department for Education (DfE) over the next two…
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