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...
Approximately 220,000 teenagers are currently not in education, employment or training, according to the recent LSC Progress Report [2006]. Representing a 1% increase on the…
“ The final round of European Social Fund (ESF) funding for Scotland has been announced, and will seek to address issues across the skills and…
“ The week ahead has been much anticipated, and at the end of the build up it seems that the anticipation will be rewarded. The…
“ Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, has praised Ufi’s tremendous success in establishing the learndirect service, which has – in a…
“ In the first of a two ““ part series, FE News journalist Joe Paget looks at citizenship education and its potential impact on Britain…
“ The National Office of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has published a new report which shows that Lincolnshire and Rutland LSC have improved…
“ ENTO is one of FE’s leading standard setting bodies, and has recently been joined in People Development UK by ENTO Direct and Ariam Media.…
Following last month’s review of the testbed learning centre scheme by the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education (NIACE), FE News took a look at…
“ Scotland’s 45 further education colleges will receive a £29.4 million increase in their annual funding along with a further £28 million increase in estates…
“ Consider yourself the next Chris Moyles or Jo Whiley? Then come display your talent with Rock FM at Exp05 this October. Whether you get…
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