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...
A partnership between a college and a health insurer has shown what can be achieved when business and community work together. A meeting between health…
UK Skills will merge with the Skills Funding Agency in March next year as part of plans to coordinate a more coherent approach to vocational…
North Hertfordshire College (NHC) has announced the appointment of Gordon Barr, the college’s former director of Sports, Travel and Public Services Academy, as assistant principal…
A new National Minimum Wage (NMW) for apprentices has been announced under new plans approved by the government. From the beginning of October this year,…
Awarding body EDI has announced the appointment of Ioan Morgan, the former principal of Warwickshire College, as Further Education Strategy Advisor. Mr Morgan, who was…
One student got a close shave when cabinet minister Eric Pickles visited the Lanes Hair & Beauty Salon, part of Havering College of Further Education,…
The next National Apprenticeship Week will take place on 7-11 February, 2011, it has been revealed. The week aims to showcase the benefits of Apprenticeship…
Significant demand for Scottish Level 2 Modern Apprenticeships within the environmental and land-based sector has been identified by Lantra Sector Skills Council. The SSC was…
Tax relief should be made available to learners who pay their own course fees, argues a new report presented this week to the Trade Union…
The Association of Learning Providers (ALP) has revealed problems with a recent capital grant for an employer after the scheme was challenged. It is feared…
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