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...
As a part of the new Adult and Community Learning Fund, 59 organisations from across England have secured funding from the Skills Funding Agency to…
With increasing emphasis on progression to advanced and higher level vocational qualifications, the government is creating the biggest Apprenticeship programme in the UK’s history. However,…
Employers are being urged to work with trade unions to increase black and minority ethnic (BME) communities’ participation rates in Apprenticeships by unionlearn, the TUC’s…
Improving discipline in schools, raising exam results and an increased emphasis on Maths and Science will be the biggest trends in education in 2012, according…
Students on benefits are being given the opportunity to join courses at a discounted rate at City of Bath College after extensive lobbying by the…
What makes a community resilient? People’s answers to this will determine whether the recent unrest suffered in London and other cities is repeated. Yet for…
In an effort to reduce the national debt and with Scotland facing reduced budgets for the next few years, cuts in public services are in…
Students across the UK have been celebrating record GCSE results today. According to statistics published by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ), 23.2 per cent…
There is insufficient provision available for young people with learning difficulties and disabilities who want to progress from school to employment or further learning, according…
As school leavers prepare to receive their GCSE results tomorrow, training providers across England are calling for a new marketing campaign to emphasise why businesses…
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