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...
Welfare-to-work firm A4e has announced that it has been cleared of fraud under audits undertaken by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) and the…
A £250m government pilot set up to help businesses design and develop their own vocational training programmes has received 269 bids from employers, according to…
The burgeoning landscape of India’s educational field has received a welcome boost in interest with the new Foreign Educational Institutions Bill set to be instated…
More than one-third of adults have not participated in learning since leaving full-time education, a survey has revealed. The annual survey by the National Institute…
The Welsh government is offering student teachers grants of up to £3,000 for the 2012/13 academic year to encourage more people to work in FE…
A new startling statistic, if not an entirely surprising fact, reveals just 58 percent of employees are satisfied with their managers. To compound the problem…
A report published by online education service LearnDirect has shown that approximately £270 million is wasted a year as companies fail to find the right candidates…
Plagiarism is a growing concern in all areas of education, and further education institutions have a responsibility to ensure students are equipped with key research…
Precisely 459 students from Havering College of Further and Higher Education have been selected to attend the Olympic Games for free through the organiser’s Ticketshare…
The pace of the challenges and changes in further education just doesn’t let up. With a new academic year only a handful of months away,…
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