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...
Rinku Chatterjee takes a look at the Open Book project and speaks to its founder, Joe Baden, about getting ex-offenders into higher education. The Open…
The LSC is launching a recruitment drive to encourage applications for key positions on nine new Regional Councils. The Councils – established as part of…
There has been a systemic failure to take disabled staff working in lifelong learning seriously, which has led to widespread institutional discrimination. That is the…
Encouraging more people to enter education and training in ways that the so – called ‘conventional’ model does not allow is one of the key…
David Howe Resigns David Howe, the Principal of Tower Hamlets College has resigned. The college is one of the leading Further Education Colleges in East…
Federation of Awarding Bodies Announce Conference Speakers The Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB) has added to the already impressive list of keynote speakers at its…
1 in 5 office based employees are considering leaving their jobs to become their own boss in a more hands industry. And why not, according…
On October 13, the annual STAR awards took place, celebrating the successes of individuals from across Further Education and Sixth-Form College, community based providers, prisons,…
Les Drew has been appointed to the South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust as a Non-Executive Director. Drew will serve a four-year…
The power of an excellent training program has just been proven at the National Training Awards regional ceremony for the South East. Eight winners were…
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