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...
A Chorley college has officially opened a new £600,000 teaching wing. This new extension, called the Yarrow wing, is located at Lancashire College in Southport…
Specialist Engineering Training Provider, assa Training and Learning has been awarded a triple grade 1 in a recent ALI inspection. Now in its eighth year,…
The London Learning and Skills Councils (North, East, South, West and Central) have all opened their ESF Co-Financed Tendering Rounds for 2005- 6. Over £80…
Hampshire and the Isle of Wight continue to lead the way for innovation and excellence in training with the news that that as a region,…
A team of young Prestwick engineers behind a crazy golf course for cancer patients has scored a glittering community award. Ten Modern Apprentices from BAE…
A new report hailing Apprenticeships as the new road to success has just been published by the LSC. Apprenticeships – The Success Report 2004 was…
“ Cities across the United Kingdom have been informed that they will be given greater freedom to implement tailored programmes for removing barriers to work,…
“ The report on the Learning and Skills Council’s (LSC’s) activities for 2005 ““ 2006 has been released this week, and as could be expected…
“ The world of education is at once constantly changing and strangely static at times, which leads to simultaneous complaints of the pace of change…
Ken Boston, speaking exclusively to FE News, provides a few minutes of his time ahead of tomorrows results. With year-on-year percentage increases in the number…
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