The publication of Common findings from funding assurance work on post-16 education providers: 2024 to 2025 assurance year provides a useful snapshot of the compliance...
My work has largely centred on helping adults develop the digital skills they need to move towards further learning and employment. Alongside my professional practice...
To continue the camping theme from part one in this series, even if you think you have all the equipment and have predicted all the...
ICAEW's research into mid-tier accountancy firms found that, while firms expect AI to reduce demand for some early-career tasks, most do not anticipate an overall...
Party conference season is one of the few points in the political calendar when politicians, policymakers, employers, think tanks and organisations from across the public...
The government's plans for young people will go further if they are built around the colleges already providing technical pathways, work placements and apprenticeships, argues...
A learner asked me a question this year that every teacher in the sector will recognise, or soon will: if the software is intelligent, why...
I’m writing this just before heading off on a family camping trip to Yorkshire, which means the house is currently a chaotic blend of optimism,...
There are now 11 applicants for every degree apprenticeship place in England, up from 3 just three years ago, according to government data. That competition...
Every year, apprenticeship providers brace themselves for a new set of funding rules. The annual ritual is familiar: download the document, highlight the changes, update...
FE video covers a variety of topics in further education, skills and employability, including apprenticeships and the future of learning and work. A combination of livestream video, user generated videos and education video articles.
John McNamara discusses the Skills Strategy and Employers Alliance of Sector Skills Councils chief executive, John McNamara, discusses the highly anticipated Skills Strategy, which is…
Isabel Sutcliffe, FAB chair, chats with FE News about the challenges of a new open qualifications market for awarding bodies. Isabel explains that, for nearly 20…
Ofqual’s Isabel Nisbet discusses the challenges faced by awarding organisations today. Please click on the image below to hear what Ms Nisbet has to say:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac2mzO_CvHs
The chief executive of the Federation of Awarding Bodies (FAB), Jill Lanning, discusses procurement issues for awarding bodies. Please click on the image below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBhn9GMSoE4
New discrimination legislation has recently come into force in the form of the Equality Act 2010 and it will affect all employers, including those in…
Fran Parry is the director of policy and communications at the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion. FE News talks with Ms Parry about Professional…
Shane Chowen is the Vice President for Further Education at the NUS (National Union of Students). He discusses how the Coalition Government’s spending review affects…
Paul Warner, of the Association of Learning Providers (ALP), discusses how Welfare to Work and Skills are moving ever closer together. According to Mr Warner, providers…
Federation of Awarding Bodies Chair, Isabel Sutcliffe, chats with FE News about curriculum reform, QCF and delivering a fit for purpose Functional Skills qualification. Only…
David Hughes, the Skills Funding Agency’s (SFA) director of provider services, deals with all of the money, allocations, performance management and the interesting new policy changes…
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