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 entry deadline for this year’s Skillsmart Retail Rising Star Awards has been extended to June 11 owing to popular demand. Entries have been flooding…
The value distinction between Higher and Further Education is “outdated” and bad for the economy, according to Vince Cable, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation…
Following the Government’s announced cuts last week, Graham Hoyle, chief executive of the Association of Learning Providers’ (ALP), has come up with his own “radical”…
Nearly half of adults would feel more confident using technology in the workplace if it had been incorporated more into their education and training, according…
The promise to free up FE colleges from central control has the potential to unleash the kind of innovation and flexibility which this country needs…
Among the £6.25 billion of spending cuts announced by the government earlier today was the closure of the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta).…
Further Education is set to benefit from significant reinvestment as part of the coalition government’s plan to address the UK’s budget deficit. Proposals for £6.2bn…
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) is offering providers training grants of up to £1000 as part of the annual Teaching and Learning conference…
“Adult learning is not a luxury, it is an essential component of our education system,” the new Minister of State for Further Education, Lifelong Learning…
Global warming and the effects of human activity on the environment continue to be a hot global topic. Educational institutes are playing an increasingly important…
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