100,000 placements is a welcome start. Who helps young people get to day one? In thirty-five years working in careers guidance, I have watched a...
Term has started, and colleges are still settling timetables and filling gaps in delivery. It's a good moment to look at who's teaching under subcontracted...
Adult learners are already investing in new careers; policy should turn that commitment into a connected journey from entry-level competence to higher technical progression. The...
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...
James Purnell, the Work and Pensions Secretary, has published a welfare reform white paper that seeks to "transform" the lives of those claiming benefits. Under…
City & Guilds is celebrating the runaway success of GOLA (Global Online Assessment), an online programme that enables candidates to take exams in their own…
The teaching of business education to 14-19 year olds needs to be more ‘hands-on’ if it is to engage and inspire young people, according to…
The Queen’s Speech today underlined the Government’s "overriding priority" to tackle the economic downturn. However, as well as introducing legislation aimed to prevent another banking…
The Association of Learning Providers (ALP) has seen bids totalling almost £14m for its tender to fund an extra £4m of innovative e-learning in the…
The Permanent Secretary at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), Jonathan Stephens, visited young people on the Creative Apprenticeship programme in Hackney last…
A4e (Central London New Deal), Sheffield Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Satisfactory: Grade 3 Capacity to improve Satisfactory: Grade 3 Achievement and standards…
Recent events in the République Démocratique du Congo (RDC) have sadly re-enforced what is, to be realistic, the bad image of the West African country.…
Jewel & Esk College has awarded a student, who battled ill health and disability to gain an SVQ2 in Professional Cookery, the College’s prestigious Principal’s…
Blackfriars settlement, Southwark, London Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Satisfactory: Grade 3 Capacity to improve Satisfactory: Grade 3 Achievement and standards Satisfactory: Grade…
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