Long-time observers of the UK skills system are prone to wearily observing that it is fragmented, complex and a victim of policy inconsistency over time....
According to the Student Mental Health Study, 37% of first-year university students show moderate-to-severe anxiety or depression. This is nearly double the national rate for...
The biggest challenges facing the further education workforce are no great secret. Pay remains a big concern. Funding pressures limit what colleges can offer, while recruitment difficulties...
For years, employers have been telling us that something fundamental is missing in the labour market. Not technical skills, although those matter enormously, but the...
The number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET) has topped one million for the first time since 2013. Alan Milburn's independent...
Ladi Mohammed and Shani Wijemuni discuss how you turn better understanding of the skills an economy needs into better decisions by people, employers, and training...
A member of your team discloses a neurodivergent condition. You do the right thing. You agree to an adjustment. You understandably feel that the difficult...
The new Burnham led government has only been in power for a couple of months but it has already done enough to indicate that it...
I read three things recently that felt worth pulling together, if only to highlight them rather than fully make sense of them. The first was...
V Levels could offer something the post-16 system badly needs: greater flexibility for young people who want vocational learning without having to specialise as early...
“ The Association of Learning Providers (ALP) will today announce that they have successfully allocated £1.5 million worth of funding to support e-learning. The Learning…
“ FE has seen a year of change and development, with growth in some areas and pay / investment injustices in others. FE News are…
“ In a bid to encourage better expertise and experience sharing, an engineering Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) has decided to join the National Forum…
“ One of the most challenging aspects of the Further Education sector is the retention of the most able and gifted of the staff working…
There is a lot of discussion regarding the task that faces Further Education, and within this there is a degree of agreement across the sector.…
NATFHE, the University and College Lecturers” Union, and the Trades Union Congress (TUC), have both welcomed the announcement that a part time lecturer has been…
“ Welsh lecturers are to receive equal pay to the school sector, thanks to a new agreement reached between NATFHE, the University and College Lecturers”…
“ One of the most prominent Government announcements of January was the Welfare Reform paper which will receive further attention tomorrow at a London conference…
“ Inclusion is a buzz ““ word for many, just another in the lexicon of “pro ““ active” terms used to encourage the belief that…
“ Students at a dramatic arts college in Bristol are celebrating after one of their lecturers bagged a BAFTA for his work on the Aardman/Dreamworks…
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