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...
The Government’s new skills strategy has been drawing mixed reactions from across the sector, after its announcement at the Association of Colleges (AoC) conference. Skills…
Millions of adults in the UK are known to have reading difficulties and one third of the British population have never picked up a book.…
Over one hundred colleges throughout England will benefit from a new Further Education fund of £2 million. Projects in 102 institutions will be developed immediately…
Agreed upon by the European institutions in 2008, the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) has been put in practice across Europe and would soon be introduced…
The Skills Strategy was launched today by Vince Cable. Here is his full speech that he delivered at the AoC conference: “Thank you for inviting…
The College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London hosted a sports day last week to showcase the many different routes to learning. The event…
A new school launched last week to help budding furniture makers break into the industry. The National School of Furniture sees the educational sector unite…
This autumn, demand far outstripped supply for university courses leaving nearly 200,000 students scrambling for the few remaining places. The knock-on effect for further education…
Further Education is helping businesses to combat the effects of the recession by boosting productivity and skills in an affordable way. According to new research,…
During his speech to the Institute of Careers Guidance annual conference in Belfast, John Hayes, Minister of State for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning,…
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