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 new series of young people’s mental health podcast The Rez – produced by University of Brighton lecturer Lance Dann – is the first podcast…
Research, just published by Thomas Pocklington Trust, shows blind and partially sighted students locked out of post-16 education in colleges. The report, ‘Give me access…
A chance message on Linkedin has created a myriad of opportunities for the students at Andover College to work on a wide variety of projects…
New study finds 75% of teachers believe girls face additional barriers to pursuing carriers in engineering. Three quarters (75 per cent) of teachers believe girls…
Following the delivery of a key note session on Sustainable Buildings at the COP26 conference in Glasgow in November 2021, South West College has been…
A series of training videos is being released to help college lecturers and support staff further develop their skills with topics including behaviour management, project…
85% of young people surveyed indicated they didn’t learn the skills at school which would be useful for today’s digital forward jobs. The&Partnership partnered with…
How rural villages in India became empowered to provide for themselves through entrepreneurship, job skills and access to global markets will be discussed at a…
The UK and Switzerland sign Memorandum of Understanding deepening the relationship between the two countries’ world-leading research and innovation communities Memorandum will encourage particular focus…
A first ever membership-led initiative exclusively for the family learning sector has opened for registrations from across the United Kingdom. The National Centre for Family…
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