Young people not in education, employment or training have often missed out on opportunities to develop essential employment skills. The Nuffield Foundation has launched a...
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...
Adult Learners Week and Rachel Smith’s monthly column amongst the features next week. Next week is Adult Learners Week and we will keep you abreast…
Fourteen days left to vote for Outstanding Personal Achiever of the Year Award – read the shortlisteds’ stories here. There are just two weeks…
National Skills Academy for Financial Services develops industry talent. British training providers, trainers and learners joined hands to celebrate the first anniversary of the National…
Skills Minister hails union learning as a lifeline for workplace learners. Minister for Skills David Lammy relaunched a network which has worked with over 100…
Draft Education and Skills Bill would also increase access to apprenticeships. A new Education and Skills Bill is amongst the items in Gordon Brown’s…
Its results also show a fall in those looking to learn in the future. The Adult Learners’ Week survey, Counting the cost, has found the…
Liz Smith, director of unionlearn writes her exclusive monthly column for FE News. This month Liz explains how unions are getting involved with Adult Learning…
Sport, hospitality and creative industries each to get own skills academy. Three new skills academies are to be opened, providing teaching for over 400,000 learners…
LSC funded learning technology project moves on with new phase Having successfully completed the objectives set at its commencement, Towards Maturity, the LSC funded e-skills…
The new quality kite mark will highlight excellence amongst training providers Training providers and employers have combined forces to launch the Training Quality Standard, which…
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