The funded management ladder has gone. Team Leader at Level 3, Operations Manager at Level 5, Chartered Manager at Level 6, Coaching Professional, Improvement Practitioner,...
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...
Only 16 per cent of businesses believe the UK is offering its young people the right mix of academic knowledge and practical skills, says education…
SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning, has criticised plans announced by the government today to scrap its popular Young Apprenticeship (YA)…
A London charity has launched a new initiative to help get disadvantaged young people in the capital into work. Called Young London Working, the initiative…
The £560m EMA programme scrapped in England last year will be replaced with a new £180m bursary scheme, Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced. Mr…
George Osborne’s Budget might have the best interests of businesses at its heart but it runs the risk of hampering the country’s prospects for growth,…
The Welsh Shadow Minister for Education has called for “evolution not a revolution” in response to an independent review of further education in Wales. Following…
Responding to today’s Budget announcement, the National Union of Students (NUS) said more Apprenticeships were to be welcomed but that continued silence on the replacement…
The government announced funding for a further 40,000 Apprenticeships for unemployed young people during today’s Budget. George Osborne, the chancellor, said the government will support…
John Mountford, international director of the Association of Colleges (AoC), responds to government plans to slash student visas issued to non-EU nationals by a quarter…
A parliamentary inquiry has been launched to investigate how the UK can ensure it has a skills system capable of taking advantage of a resurgence…
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