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...
Recent figures released by The Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) issued a damning report at their annual conference in July showing that students graduating in…
The highly-anticipated Comprehensive Spending Review has been unveiled, and responses from the FE, Skills and Welfare sectors have been flooding in. In overview, Train to…
Chancellor George Osborne launched the coalition government’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) this afternoon and, as expected, the FE sector has been strongly affected. In his…
The 157 Group, the membership organisation representing 28 large FE colleges in England, has today issued a stark warning of the potential impact on 16…
An Ofsted report, published last Friday, says apprentices are more likely to complete their training programmes, and do so more quickly, when they have been…
FE’s £4.5bn budget should be opened up in line with the rest of the education system to be more responsive to the needs of employers…
FE News speaks to Tony Perks, CEO of GO Vocational Ltd, about the role that technology plays in the assessment of vocational qualifications. Work-based Learning…
The National Skills Academy for Financial Services’ (NSAFS)’s newest appointment is looking forward to the challenge he faces as their new Regional Director for the…
With a matter of days to go until the publication of the Spending Review, the Government is poised to unveil unprecedented levels of public sector…
Employers up and down the country are benefiting from highly skilled and motivated staff involved in work-related training, according to a report by Ofsted. The…
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