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...
After a month spent helping several providers with assorted problems I’ve noticed a common theme. Each of the problems was the result of a bottleneck…
The government is using a “dangerously blunt instrument” to cut adult Apprenticeships by expecting employers to make up the difference when subsidies are reduced, according…
Another week, another step backwards in the march towards parity of esteem for vocational education. It was with a heavy heart that I read this…
Recognising the important role that student disciplinary hearings can play in improving retention rates in the further education (FE) sector, my firm, Shakespeares, is running…
The number of University Technical Colleges will rise by 12 to reach 17 in total this month but “many more are needed” to fill the…
The Employment Related Services Association (ERSA) is calling for ideas to help develop the future of mainstream outsourced welfare to work provision. Prime contractors, subcontractors…
Employers are being urged to take on more apprentices as Apprenticeship applications soar by a third over the year to 1.4 million. Although the number…
The largest FE and HE college in Northern Ireland has become the 29th member of the 157 Group education association. Belfast Metropolitan College, which is…
David Way is stepping down as executive director of the National Apprenticeship Service on Friday after integrating the group with the Skills Funding Agency. With…
Rachel is in the second year of a computer science course at her local FE college. She got off to a flying start in her…
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