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...
“ The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) has proved a great success, but is it being asked to do too much? The EMA seems like a…
“ A survey released by Skills for Business has revealed that a significant proportion of Tory MPs disapprove of economic migration as a method of…
“ After spending their gap years teaching English in mainland Europe, two European ex-students of Coleg Llandrillo Cymru are to begin their degree courses in…
“ The delivery of the petition to Downing Street this week has not marked the end of the fight for fairer funding in the FE…
“ If the Royal Mail gets to deliver late, writes Jethro Marsh for FE News, then I think that Further Education can probably understand the…
“ Performing Arts and Media students at West Cheshire College (WCC) were awarded The Media Oscars, or “Moscars” to celebrate their achievements in a glamorous…
“ The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has recently published a study evaluating the impact of the European Social Fund (ESF) Objective 3 co-financing…
“ The issue of providing language training in England has grown more crucial in recent years as the pace of immigration on the part of…
“ For those living in London, writes Jethro Marsh for FE News, it is an obvious fact that there exist in the city a wide…
“ The problems of the level of adult literacy and numeracy are not new ones for anyone involved in the FE world. The Government has…
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