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...
The latest Association of Colleges enrolment survey contains some interesting information that provides a mixed picture of recruitment to STEM courses. On the whole, it…
The top one hundred apprentice employers were honoured during a ceremony in Birmingham on Wednesday night. Organisations ranging from Rolls Royce to BT joined the…
A new government initiative aims to bring the business of entrepreneurship and enterprise to UK universities and colleges with £1.1 million backing from the Department…
As the country celebrates Colleges Week 2012, Working Links’ Stephen Evans explains why young people are crying out for help navigating the job market. Colleges…
Ahead of the 2012 SKillELECTRIC competition, Iain Macdonald, chief executive of the competition’s main sponsors, National Electrotechnical Training (NET), discusses the importance of collaboration between…
Smaller training providers gave prolonged applause to Robust Training CEO Roger Lynch as his rousing speech ended AELP’s annual conference earlier this year. In a no-holds-barred address,…
The government’s Work Programme, designed to reduce unemployment and welfare payments, is set to publish the results of its first year later this month. Official…
Students starting their AS and A Level exams next September will only be able to sit exams in the summer under Ofqual’s crackdown on resits.…
A new scheme has been launched to deliver more Apprenticeships by enabling apprentices to complete their programmes with different construction employers. The Shared Apprenticeship Scheme,…
Ofqual has warned that the overall quality of textbooks as learning resources is suffering from too much focus on exam preparation. The exams regulator has…
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