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 TUC has welcomed the Skills for Sustainable Growth consultation, which was launched last week by the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). Minister…
More than 240 students have benefited from a new Job Shop initiative at South Birmingham College, which has proven so successful it is to be…
It wasn’t too long ago that the educational route to success was unidirectional. The BTEC, launched in 1984, provided a more vocational learning path to…
Apprentices – including a food technology apprentice who invents cakes for major supermarkets – were honoured at this year’s Apprenticeship Awards. Nominees gathered in London…
Success in a schools digital competition could be replicated to the further education sector next year. Lee Davies, deputy chief executive of the Institute of…
A year ago many providers were still hesitant about getting involved with social media sites such as Twitter. However, over the last year, quite a…
Cooperation with local authorities is improving the lives of young vulnerable people, according to an Ofsted report published today. However, the report added that local…
A ground-breaking “paperless” vocational qualification system, which could eliminate traditional paperwork qualifications, system has been launched. Go Vocational Solutions launched GO Portfolio – which uses…
A leading training company from Essex should have a brighter future after becoming the Association of Learning Providers’ 500th member To mark the milestone, The…
The government must integrate employment and skills procurement if it is to satisfy a ‘more for less’ efficiency agenda, according to the Association of Learning…
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