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 welfare to work conference 2012 took place on the 10th and 11th of July, and it was both an exciting and informative conference, not…
The government yesterday announced the implementation of Maths and English lessons in UK prisons, based on the style and rubric of the intensive courses delivered…
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has produced a prospectus outlining plans to create a guild for Further Education. This means that if plans…
Skills Minister John Hayes has announced that the requirement of teaching qualifications in FE, which have been stringently regulated since 2007, will be retained for the near future. The…
What makes a good teacher? The ability to inspire, motivate, encourage, and reason with difficult subject matter to an entire classroom? To impart knowledge on…
With our customers and potential customers able to use mobile phones and tablet computers that give them 24/7 access to search engines and FE websites…
The British Council Further Education International Collaboration Award, to give it its full title, is an award for colleges throughout the UK which create and…
A report by The Lords Science and Technology Committee has called for immediate action to produce more high calibre science graduates, fundamental to secure the…
Specialist awarding body EAL has been working with the electrical industry’s voluntary regulatory body NICEIC to form a strategic alliance. Its aim is to deliver…
Despite the straightened circumstances of many providers 850 people actually attended the annual Welfare to Work conference. However it might be just my impression but…
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