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...
Some of the country’s key businesses are experiencing a worrying lack of skilled workers, according to a report published today. The UK Commission’s Employer Skills…
The Shadow Business Secretary recently spoke of the potential for young gang members to be entrepreneurial if they channel their skills appropriately. Speaking at ‘Hub…
The head of the CBI has emphasised the need to ‘step up’ and help the young generation enter into the world of work. John Cridland,…
A record 383,200 people started an Apprenticeship in the first nine months of the 2011/12 academic year, according to provisional data published today. According to…
Since the last A Level review four years ago, Ofqual has conducted independent research and decided now is the time to once more propose change…
This September City & Guilds will be launching a range of Higher Apprenticeships, after the announcement of Vince Cable’s Higher Apprenticeship scheme for high-skilled industries.…
“Change for the sake of change” is how Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), described Secretary for Education Michael…
Ofsted’s Mathew Coffey yesterday announced the group’s new Common Inspection Framework for September 2012. The framework, which can be downloaded online from the Ofsted website,…
Martin Dunford, chairman of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP), reflected on the quality of vocational training over the last ten years, and…
Speakers at the AELP conference yesterday focused on the vital importance of quality and collaboration within the burgeoning Apprenticeship sector. Members of the industry came…
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