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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A scheme to encourage Muslim women in the north-east and Scotland to take up cancer screening has reached a significant milestone in its work to…
26% of female professionals from working class backgrounds have received a promotion at their current company – less than half the number of female professionals…
New research revealed ahead of International Women’s Day (IWD), finds that girls are ten times more likely than boys of their age to think their…
A new survey of 2,000 UK employees by Glassdoor has found that women are being unfairly disadvantaged by a lack of salary transparency which in…
In this article, Ben, Simon and Rayhaan discuss the future of teaching in further education and the opportunities and challenges that digital and online learning…
In the spirit of National Careers Week and in the run up to International Women’s Day, the Women into Manufacturing and Engineering (WiME) event took…
This year the Spring Budget took place on Wednesday the 6th of March at 12.30 pm. Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivered the spring budget which he…
A former RAF pilot and combat base commander is helping to provide a new generation of supply chain professionals for some of the world’s biggest…
World-renowned BBC journalist and author Kate Adie is to have her life’s work catalogued and archived as part of a specially curated collection in her…
As work continues to progress at the redevelopment of the former Palmers department store in Great Yarmouth, Morgan Sindall Construction’s Eastern Counties business has welcomed…
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