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...
As a new series of the ultimate in trash television prepares its latest onslaught on the boundaries of acceptable human behaviour, we are reminded of…
“ Further Education is as hard at work as ever in proving that it maintains its position as market leader in providing flexible learning solutions…
“ Reacting to the Education Bill, which is to be voted on later today in the House of Commons, the Association of Colleges (AoC) has…
“ Today will see the start of the latest round of talks between the Association of Colleges (AoC) and Further Education staff for the approaching…
“ The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown MP, yesterday faced the House of Commons for his Budget Announcement which seems to have focussed the…
“ The National Union of Students (NUS) welcomed the publication of the new White Paper on Further Education on the eve of their annual conference…
“ The voting for the winner of Quick Reads has come to an end, and will the winner step forward: Minette Walters! The author has…
“ The recent FE White Paper outlines a series of initiatives that will transform the life chances of young people and of the skills of…
“ The government needs to shape the future role and structure of regulation to fit its far-reaching public services reforms, according to a recent discussion…
“ In February, the government published plans to reform further education in Britain. The overall focus of the reforms is on tuning FE students to…
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