Small and medium-sized enterprises are the backbone of the UK economy, yet encouraging more of them to participate in apprenticeships remains a challenge. While much...
As we await Alan Milburn’s final review of young people and work, much of the debate has understandably focused on the scale of youth inactivity,...
A college can achieve a strong staff survey response rate and still fail to hear from some of the people it most needs to understand....
In a special feature for FE News to mark Get the Nation Learning Week, Alison Morris, Director of Policy at Skills Federation brings together members...
The Government’s Youth Guarantee is a welcome recognition that too many young people are being left behind. But if it is to succeed over the...
Picture a meeting that covers a change to timetables, a new adjustments plan, or a restructure proposal. Everyone nods. Actions are agreed. Then, over the...
There has been increased debate over youth participation in education and employment, and the scale of the challenge is undeniable. Nearly one million young people...
Every November the Department for Education counts the school workforce, and every year the headline is about teachers. This year's count, published last month, is...
Think about the young people leaving further education this year. One might be heading to university. Another is starting an apprenticeship. One is going straight...
The forthcoming Budget and the Milburn Review will bring further focus onto participation, opportunity and workforce development; apprenticeships are once again set to occupy a...
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The UK is experiencing a shortage of workers within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) sectors. So much so, according to the UK Commission…
From drivers, cleaners, and farm workers to hairdressers, childminders and builders, plus many more besides, self-employment is in no way the sole preserve of highly…
The TUC has today (Tuesday) warned that anything less than an employment bill at the Queen’s Speech would be an act of betrayal – leaving…
The Chancellor @rishisunak launches @GoogleUK’s #DigitalGarage Skills Training Tour The Chancellor hailed small businesses as the “heart of our economy” today as he set out…
As the UK supports Mental Health Awareness Week (9th May – 15th May), a North East based development and regeneration specialist continues to promote innovative…
Britain’s lowest paid workers will be given the flexibility to boost their income through extra work, under new plans set out by the Government today…
With pressure mounting on household budgets and wages failing to keep pace with the soaring cost of living, the latest survey by the UK’s leading…
Businesses must ‘walk the walk and not just talk the talk’ with how they support workers’ mental health challenges, or will pay the price in…
As the DfE funded national Advanced Practitioners Programme (#APConnect) comes to an end after four years, I’ve been looking back at how different FE was,…
The government’s failure to clamp down on insecure, low-paid work is costing the Treasury £10 billion a year, a new TUC report has warned today…
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