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...
Many young people’s long-term life chances are determined during the transition from education to the labour market. Under the current system, they have to decide…
The government’s new back-to-work scheme was launched today as ministers hope to place more than two million unemployed people in jobs over the next five…
Teachers and trainers working in the further education and skills sectors are soon to see changes made to their memberships to the Institute for Learning…
Many vocational business courses are failing to equip students with the appropriate levels of theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject, according to Ofsted. Ofsted…
MPs and Lords have been warned that young people will be deprived of key support if the proposed changes to the careers guidance are delivered,…
Former principal David Jones, who transformed Deeside College, has been appointed chair of the Colegau / CollegesWales association. Mr Jones is credited for helping Deeside…
Environmental and land-based SSC Lantra has developed, in partnership with the British Beekeepers Association (BBKA), a Level 1 qualification in beekeeping. This new qualification aims…
Children and campaign groups fearing the effects of widespread cuts to college transport funding delivered a film petition to Education Secretary Michael Gove yesterday. The…
NIACE welcomes the call by Downing Street of a full investigation into the situation at the Winterbourne View home for adults with learning disabilities, which…
Retail chain Matalan has invited unemployed people in and around Crawley to complete a free pre-employment programme to fast track their way to secure an…
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