The past few months have marked a significant moment for education and skills policy, with the publication of the Skills Bill, the Curriculum and Assessment...
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Successive governments have long promised to fix the UK’s skills and productivity problem. We have seen new qualifications, bootcamps and programmes in all directions. Yet, productivity...
Colleges are struggling to recruit finance leaders. The problem is not salary, it is more to do with a lack of understanding of the aspirations...
Supporting learners in FE isn’t just about academic outcomes. It is also about creating environments where every student and every member of staff feels safe,...
What we lose when learning becomes entirely online There’s no disputing the fact that we’ve made learning more accessible than ever in the last five...
Autistic people are as diverse as our country and an integral, valuable part of it. Yet they also face persistent inequalities, holding them back from...
Assessment is at a crossroads. AI is accelerating change, student needs are shifting, and colleges are being asked to deliver fairer, more flexible, more future-proofed...
Workforce planning can no longer just focus on headcount. Organisations today face unprecedented change: from the rise of automation and AI, to shifting skill demands,...
With nearly one million young people currently not in education, employment or training, a rapidly evolving labour market, and employers voicing growing concerns about the...
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Children and young people will leave school fully equipped to thrive in the modern world of work under reforms to breathe new life into the national…
The Digital Poverty Alliance (DPA) partners withDe Montfort University in Leicester as part of its Barratt funded Tech4Youth initiative, aimed at getting students online and…
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 821: 1st November 2025. What is a Green Mindset? … and how can you be one of the 3% that…
Historically, arts and cultural institutions have predominantly engaged sight in the curation of their galleries. Justifiable restrictions on touch for art conservation reasons would be…
Local authorities are struggling to balance their legal duty to provide transport for eligible pupils and the duty to balance their budget, says the NAO.…
The Department for Work and Pensions has today published its response to the Pathways to Work consultation, which received 47,983 responses making it one of…
Mehdi El Khatib, Managing Director of University Mohammed VI Polytechnic’s (UM6P) Global Hub in the United States, highlights the critical role of cross-continental collaboration in…
The internationalisation of UK vocational education took another strategic leap forward as Global Careers Alliance (GCA) formalised a partnership with the Punjab Chief Minister’s Taskforce…
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