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...
Scotland’s Colleges has appointed Chris Travis as its new chief executive to head the recently merged body. The organisation comprises the Association of Scotland’s Colleges,…
Student support staff and Bursary officers from all 43 colleges in Scotland will meet today to discuss how the country’s poorest students can be supported…
John Denham, the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS), has commented on the recent Ministerial reshuffle. The changes see Lord Drayson, who…
The Association of Scotland’s Colleges (ASC) will today call for the Commission on Scottish Devolution to remove the financial barriers that prevent adults from entering…
According to the latest report to come from Ofsted, although the quality of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) training is improving, a lot…
HSBC Bank Plc, Sheffield Summary of grades awarded: Effectiveness of provision Good: Grade 2 Capacity to improve Good: Grade 2 Achievement and standards Good: Grade…
According to a new report from Ofsted, some colleges and schools are missing out on the benefits students gain from off-site activities, because it fails…
The chief executive of the House of Fraser, John King, has been selected as employer champion of the Diploma in Retail Business, the first national…
The Building Colleges for the Future programme has successfully helped 21 further education colleges open £335m of new state-of-the art buildings and technologies this month.…
A training scheme from Redcar & Cleveland College, in partnership with The Working Knowledge Group, has achieved National Training Awards. The Working Knowledge Group won…
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