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...
If you had to choose, who would you expect to be the top influencer of your students’ course choices? Peers, parents, teachers, careers advisors? Well,…
Apprenticeship starts across all levels rose by nearly 50,000 to 502,500 over the past year, according to statistics published today. The provisional data shows particularly…
A survey from YouGov’s Teacher Track system suggests 50% of teachers in England oppose the government’s plan to scrap GCSEs for a new baccalaureate system.…
Like most teenagers, our son Connor was not sure what career path he wanted to take. Wanting to find out more about his options, Connor…
Global Perspectives and Independent Research: it sounds like the sort of subject that can drain the will of even the strongest student, and leave their…
Funding pressures and inconsistencies are threatening FE colleges’ ability to equip learners with high quality STEM-related skills, according to a new report. The 157 Group…
A specialist college that is due to open in North Somerset has been heralded as ‘a new model of learning, after revealing its revolutionary approach…
The Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP) has published new proposals on how it believes two million Apprenticeship places can be generated. These proposals…
Consumer goods giant Unilever has launched a one-day training course to help lecturers deliver health and nutrition modules to catering students. The programme, an industry-first,…
Labour leader Ed Miliband has unveiled plans for a new technical baccalaureate for the 50% of young people who do not go to university. Addressing…
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