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...
A second major programme of European Social Funding (ESF) funding for London is set to be launched on the 23rd of January 2006. The new…
The aim is high and the goals are many but can newly appointed Education Secretary Ruth Kelly deliver on her promises? Even before the Government’s…
A new report hailing Apprenticeships as the new road to success has just been published by the LSC. Apprenticeships- The Success Report 2004 was commissioned…
Further Education is growing. More and more people both rely on it for their education and training, and for their employment as trainers, instructors, administrators.…
The innovative Individual Learning Accounts (ILA) scheme was aimed at widening participation in learning and helping to overcome financial barriers faced by learners, particularly amongst…
Trade and Industry Secretary, Patricia Hewitt, today (30 Aug 2002) announced the appointment of a new Chair of the Ethnic Minority Business Forum and the…
The Commission for Black Staff in FE was established following recommendations from the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report in 1999. Key organisations in Further Education recognised…
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