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...
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New commitments to develop AI safely have been agreed with 16 AI tech companies spanning the globe, including companies from the US, China and the…
Grŵp Llandrillo Menai (@LlandrilloMenai) is proud to announce a new and exciting partnership with Maethu Cymru/Foster Wales, the national network of local authority fostering services,…
The majority of people in the UK feel alienated from entrepreneurship, according to new research from inclusive business charity Hatch Enterprise. The data revealed that…
A Bradford College Vice Principal has been named Muslim Woman of the Year at a prestigious national awards ceremony. Alina Khan won the ‘Noor Inayat Khan Muslim…
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…
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…
We hope you may have heard by now about the Green Changemakers programme, a devolution initiative of the West Midlands and Warwickshire Combined Authority, funded…
New analysis of ONS data has revealed the jobs with the most full-time employees in the UK. There are now more people working full-time as…
On the 27th of April 2024 Iveta Pudilova (22), co-founder of Birmingham-based start-up, Happy Autistic Lady LTD, won the Inclusivity Award at the Inspirational Youth…
North East colleges and training providers are being offered a lifeline and generous government grants to help them address ongoing trainer/teacher and assessor shortages. Gateshead-based…
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