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 Learning Skills and Improvement Service (LSIS) has confirmed the establishment of a brand new initiative, which contributes funding to the costly and rising fees of teacher…
I recently facilitated a workshop about building and maintaining effective dialogue with learners, with the aim of exploring what works and devising strategies to do…
Government ministers have outlined support measures for the introduction of advanced learning loans for adults who are aged 24 and over and who are in…
Speaking to FE news at the Welfare to Work conference this year, TBG Learning CEO Andrew Conlan-Trant admited to several tense moments in the early…
The coalition government has created a new £50 million fund to help mature students pay for FE, as part of the service provided by the…
The government’s social justice strategy must involve many Welfare to Work providers in order to make a real difference, according to Mark Fisher, social justice…
This year the Welfare to Work conference heard Alan Cave, delivery director of DWP, discuss the positives and foreseeable improvements of the payment-for-results Work Programme,…
A plumbing and heating company with a 90-year history is set to invest further in its future by training people in renewable energy products and…
This is the view put forth by John Cridland CBE, the director-general of the CBI, in the 157 Group policy paper published recently to correspond with…
This is what we do every day isn’t it? It is something we are very good at. Or is it? Engagement in action Let’s look…
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