A decade ago, digital skills were often seen as specialist knowledge. Today, they sit alongside English and maths as essential workplace literacies. Sustainability is now...
Before our sector rushes to introduce apprenticeship quality measures, it’s time we made better use of the strongest public indicator we already have. An industry...
The UK’s labour market currently faces a growing contradiction. At the same time as businesses report persistent skills shortages, nearly a million young people aged...
As apprenticeships are, by definition, an employment-based programme, you might reasonably expect the pattern of apprenticeship starts to broadly track trends in the labour market. Having worked in the sector for over 20...
AI is beginning to shape young people’s transitions from education to work. Increasingly, career development practitioners are using large language models to support guidance sessions and for resource creation...
The Skills White Paper claims colleges have been treated as "second rate" despite impressive results compared to others. Does our misaligned quality model and music...
There is a persistent and costly misunderstanding at the heart of workforce design in Further Education. We continue to measure people against roles that were...
The quality of initial teacher training (ITT) in further education (FE) is again under review, but this time with a sharper regulatory edge. From 2026,...
At Milton Keynes, we were the first FE College Group in the country to receive the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) inspection, and I’m delighted to...
Geoffrey Hinton and I have something in common. We both studied and worked in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence department at the University of...
It’s all about the learner, and building a culture of lifelong learning.
Moving to the UK from a different country can be a significant change, especially if you are a student who has never lived outside of…
Coleraine student Jamie Watton (22), has turned his life around and gone from being a troubled teenager to an ambitious young man with a clear…
Talented apprentices from The Sheffield College (@sheffcol) who are training with employers across the city and beyond have been celebrated at an annual showcase event.…
Work to improve standards of maths in Welsh schools is progressing with new schemes in place helping to boost confidence, develop skills and encourage more…
Ten years after financial education was added to the national curriculum, a new Education Committee report calls on the Government to bolster the subject in…
The National Hairdressing Competition Awards for Lee Stafford Education 2024 took place last week with staff and students from across all the Lee Stafford Education…
A major new report (A Minimum Income Standard for Students) by the Higher Education Policy Institute and TechnologyOne shows, for the first time, how much students need…
NPTC Group of Colleges(@NPTCGroup) is proud to announce the one-year anniversary of its successful Chai and Chat initiative, which has been promoting community engagement and cultural exchange…
Report from CIPD and Youth Futures Foundation shows strong employer backing for Apprenticeship Guarantee for young people, to reverse the collapse in provision for those…
The impact of declining mental health and the cost-of-living crisis on student attendance has been laid bare in new research published by the Association of…
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