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...
For more than 30 years I’ve pondered this question, and thought that FE was stuck in the past and could do more to provide what…
Online learning provider learndirect has struck a deal to provide maths and English skills to more than 1000 apprentices in the hospitality sector. The company…
Providing flexible and responsive Functional Skills under the revised Ofsted framework will be one of many challenges facing the sector in 2013/14. Delivering these within…
Disabled people are getting more help to gain the skills and experience they need to get a job under plans to widen the Access to…
Only four in ten companies offer management training despite nearly two-thirds of employers blaming leadership issues for holding businesses back, according to new research. A…
Awarding body City & Guilds has entered into a new partnership to launch a set of qualifications designed to give businesses a greener workforce. The…
Team UK celebrated a triumphant medal haul last night that included gold for cabinet making and bricklaying at the WorldSkills 2013 competition in Leipzig, Germany.…
I was at a training event some weeks ago and I heard that a colleague’s son had recently graduated with a marketing degree, but that…
Team UK got off to a great start on the first day of the WorldSkills 2013 competition in Leipzig, Germany. Click on the video below watch…
The first FE college to be ranked ‘outstanding’ under Ofsted’s new framework has become the latest member of the 157 Group education association. West Midlands-based…
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