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...
Recently Skills Minister John Hayes opened a conference with these words: “Real success for us must lie in the difference that the new knowledge and…
It has been a few weeks since John Hayes unveiled the consultation, ‘Skills for Sustainable Growth’, and the lack of mainstream media coverage may have…
The recent Comprehensive Spending and Browne reviews present “significant opportunities” for colleges, according to a roundtable of leading FE figures. Martin Doel, chief executive of…
There’s been a lot of news coverage about Mega Monday, Manic Monday or Cyber Monday this week. In case you missed it, the Monday in…
The government is not only committed to increasing the number of Apprenticeships but also their quality, FE Minister John Hayes said as he attended the…
Learners studying for the new Level 3 childcare diploma need to undertake more work experience to meet the sector’s requirements, according to qualifications regulator Ofqual.…
Based on international comparisons, the Fair Shares report recently released by not-for-profit education body LSN, in partnership with the Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning, examined…
Fast food chain McDonald’s has launched a foundation degree as the company seeks to become a major provider of HE and FE. The fast-food conglomerate…
Adult learners are in need of sufficient funds in order to increase the impact of adult learning programmes, according to the National Institute of Adult…
Awarding body EDI has acquired Sector Training, the FE professional development services provider, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will help EDI, which provides quality…
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