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...
Ministers from three different government departments will be giving keynote speeches at this year’s annual conference for vocational and work based learning providers held by…
The Machinery of Government proposals to axe the Learning and Skills Council and transfer £70 billion funding to local authorities has been given a mixed…
The LSC is a remarkable success story and I am proud of what it has achieved. Under its leadership, Further Education has been transformed. In…
Colleges and sixth forms will be helped to deliver the reforms needed to increase the training and education age to 18 by a £7 billion…
£6,000 of learning experiences are to be offered to the winners of a learning competition. The Big Learn 2008 competition gives entrants the chance to…
The Royal Navy, TUI Travels UK & Ireland and Veolia Environnement were today rewarded for their commitment to skills development, as the shortlist for the…
British women are urged to step out of their stereotypical roles in a bid to explore male-dominated genres and look up to successful female role-models…
Colleges across the country are going through huge programmes of rebuilding as capital funding is poured into FE. The LSC’s prospectus for its capital building…
FE News is pleased to announce a new columnist. Rachel Smith, Development Officer at the College Marketing Network will be writing a monthly column for…
The University and College Union (UCU) begin balloting members in FE colleges in England today on possible industrial action in pursuit of a pay claim…
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