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...
A recent report from business lobbying group, the CBI, warned that the UK’s creative industries are being held back by a lack of relevant skills…
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There is no doubt that the FE sector is coming under increasing pressure to reduce costs and increase efficiencies wherever it can. Not only are…
For young people classed as NEET – not in education, employment or training – the prospects of finding work when they lack the right qualifications…
Marilyn Hawkins, new chair of the 157 Group and principal of Barnet College, launched the 157 Group’s 2010-11 impact review along with a collection of…
In the wake of radical changes to the careers profession, Skills Minister John Hayes will address the annual conference of the Institute of Career Guidance…
In my article on Sustainability through learning and teaching that was published in FE News in October 2011 I talked about the need for a…
One in eight young people with an Advanced Level Apprenticeship has gone into Higher Education, according to new research released by the University of Greenwich.…
Qualifications regulator Ofqual has published an interim report on the errors that affected some of this summer’s exam papers. The errors, which were found in…
The number of people starting Apprenticeships has more than doubled over the past year, new figures have revealed. Provisional data shows there were 442,700 apprenticeship…
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