Attendance, Engagement and NEET: The Case For Leading With The Gatsby Benchmarks 

NEET figures remain stubbornly high, with the UK continuing to underperform relative to its peers in the proportion of young people who are economically inactive, unemployed and not training or…

Apprenticeship Assessment Reform: Risks, Opportunities and the Year Ahead 

If 2025 was a year of reform announcements for the FE and skills system – and it was, from V-levels to professional development to new ways of funding…

A Moment of Opportunity for FE and AI 

Artificial intelligence is now shaping almost every conversation about the future of education and work. Yet, despite the sector’s agility and deep connections with employers and communities, Further…

Why Retrofitting Keeps Going Wrong, and What to do About it 

A government audit has found that over 30,000 homes have had sub-standard insulation installed under two recent publicly-funded retrofit schemes. The schemes, Energy Company Obligation…

Creating A Blueprint For LSIPs To Align Skills Supply and Demand

A new Gatsby-commissioned report sets out how a Local Skills Improvement Plan can be structured to improve the alignment of skills supply with employer needs.…

How to Close the Retrofit Skills Gap

New Training Facilities Signal Potential Across England, new training facilities are opening as FE colleges anticipate rising demand for retrofit and sustainable building skills. In…

New Report Highlights Urgent Need to Close the Retrofit Skills Gap

Gatsby Charitable Foundation, with support from the climate change charity Ashden and the National Retrofit Hub, has today published a new report, Closing the Retrofit…

Unlocking the Potential of Generative AI in Technical Maths Education

Imagine designing an enclosure for poison dart frogs—not just any enclosure, but one optimised for space, safety, and sustainability. This may not be the first…

Transforming FE workforce recruitment and retention through industry collaboration

The FE sector faces challenges in recruiting and retaining a skilled workforce. The Industry Associate project, led by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in collaboration with…

Gatsby's Benchmarks: The Next Decade of Career Guidance

Beth explains what colleges and ITPs need to know about the updates to the Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance and the evidence that has…

New Research Employs ChatGPT to Track FE Recruitment Trends

Recruitment in the FE sector is a persistent challenge, with colleges investing significant resources in hiring staff to meet demand. Yet national-level data on recruitment…

Is end-point assessment a barrier to apprenticeship completions? 

With providers under the spotlight on achievement rates, a new report explores the part played by EPA in low achievement rates and the role for employers,…

FE colleges need better tools to compete for their teacher workforce 

The further education (FE) sector is crucial to England’s education system, providing training programmes essential for addressing skills gaps and helping students transition into skilled…

Ready for Retrofit? What new ministers can learn from the 2023 LSIPs

Charlotte argues new ministers must prioritise home retrofitting for net zero, emphasising skill development through FE. She finds Local Skills Improvement Plans inadequately address retrofitting…

Gatsby Report: LSIPs Crucial for Next Government's Decarbonisation Plans

A new report has found significant differences in how prepared local areas are to retrofit homes to be more energy efficient. The report, based on…

New Study Reveals Dynamic Recruitment Trends in Further Education (FE) Colleges Amidst and Post COVID-19 Pandemic

Data-driven analysis from Gatsby Charitable Foundation and SchoolDash highlights stark contrast of recruitment trends observed in FE colleges, sixth form colleges, and UTCs compared to…

Making sense of technical assessment - Is standardisation the biggest challenge?

Anyone who has wrapped a wet towel round their head to devise a technical assessment will recognise the dilemmas: the rigour of standardised examinations, or…

The Gatsby Foundation's response to the Government's Innovation Strategy

Gatsby welcomes the focus on emerging skills development and the adoption of the skills value chain approach set out today (22 July 2021) in the…

Reforming our post-16 landscape: An important milestone in the reform of technical education in England

This week, the government published the response to its consultation on the review of post-16 qualifications at level 3. This is an important milestone in the…

Government strengthens commitment to the Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance

Today’s (15 July 2021) release of updated statutory guidance for schools, further education colleges, and sixth form colleges on the delivery of career guidance brings…

Ground-breaking Gatsby Careers Pilot Hailed a Success

An independent evaluation of the Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance Pilot has been released. The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) played a central role in the Pilot…

Gatsby welcomes the publication of the Government’s White Paper on Further Education

@GatsbyEd welcomes the publication of the Government’s White Paper on Further Education that sets out ambitious plans for the country to have world class technical…

The Eight Gatsby Benchmarks Of Good Career Guidance

New report sets out how to fix ‘broken career guidance system’  Career guidance in schools is failing pupils and damaging the economy, according to the…