Economic inactivity linked to long-term health conditions has now reached 2.8 million people in the UK, costing the country an estimated £212 billion per year...
FE leaders are not short of priorities. Funding pressures, curriculum reform, skills gaps, and meeting diverse learner needs all demand attention, so the instinct can...
Across the country, clean energy projects are falling behind schedule. Sometimes it’s planning disputes. Other times, it’s budget pressures. But the challenge that often goes...
Part Three of three on children, social media and the ban. The first piece asked how we arrived here. The second asked what we should...
As AI adoption outpaces the systems meant to recognise it, the question for the sector is not how to teach AI, but how to certify...
There is a phrase that gets used a lot in education technology right now, and it rarely means what people think it means. "AI-powered" has...
Burnham’s push for No 10 North and a devolved 14–19 offer promises new routes for young people; whether the MBacc becomes the model is now...
The longer I spend working as an independent governance, risk and compliance consultant, the more I find myself thinking that many organisations aren't actually managing...
We know that attendance remains one of the most closely monitored metrics in education. Still, for those working across further education, inclusion, and youth participation,...
From the end of 2023, until the beginning of 2025, I was leading a piece of research titled Appreciating and Supporting Neurodiversity for the New...
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Yesterday’s Budget had a welcome focus on employment, and in particular in helping more people who are outside of the labour force to get (back)…
Presented with a somewhat better fiscal outlook than he faced in November – but still much worse than expected a year ago – Mr Hunt…
The Chancellor announced an impressively broad suite of policies to encourage more people into work, but Britain’s economy remains stuck in a deep funk –…
Portland College was graded Outstanding in every category in an Ofsted Inspection, January 2023. Four Ofsted Inspectors assessed all elements of the further education provision…
Over decades, a problematic trend in the UK has emerged – employers are failing to invest in training the workforce, despite technological change and the…
Today (15 March), Jeremy Hunt announced the latest developments in the Spring Back to Work Budget. One of these announcements included developments within the Health…
Returnerships, Skills Bootcamps and AI… Keep up to date with the latest developments for the FE Eco-System! Spring has sprung, which means it is now…
Over 100 students from ten FE colleges & Institutes of Technology (IoT) got creative this month, participating in a national challenge led by the CyberHub…
COLEG CAMBRIA learners helped officers take aim at criminals on a day of cross-border police operations. As part of a programme organised by North Wales…
The UK enterprise population It is often said that small and medium-sized enterprises, or SMEs, are the backbone of the UK economy. According to the…
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