What Is Green Confetti and Why Do You Need A Playbook? FE Soundbite Edition 827
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 827: 13th December 2025. What Is Green Confetti and Why Do You Need A Playbook? | FE Soundbite Edition 827…
Green Mindset Collective
New Playbook Calls for “Green Mindset” to Be Embedded Across All FE and Skills Provision
Landmark report from Education Training Foundation, EAUC and FE News sets out practical roadmap to make sustainability the default lens for sector decisions, authored by…
Beyond Green Confetti: What the Green Mindset Collective taught us
On 30 October, nearly 80 leaders from across FE and skills including providers, educators, sustainability leads, employers, awarding bodies, policymakers and student voices spent a…
Would A Skills Passport, Or Try Before You Buy Training, Bridge Employability and Skills Gaps? FE Soundbite Edition 826
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 826: 6th December 2025. Would A Skills Passport, Or Try Before You Buy Training, Bridge Employability and Skills Gaps? This…
Four Facilitator Voices: Creating the Foundations for the Green Mindset Collective Report – The Changemaking Power of 3%
The countdown to the Green Mindset Collective report is now on. Dr Vikki Smith, from ETF and Charlotte Bonner from EAUC will be launching the…
Trust the Professionals: Olly Newton on Why FE Needs Autonomy to Develop Green Skills
The green mindset isn’t important for FE because policymakers say so. It’s important because young people care about it and businesses need it. That’s the…
Start With Questions: Jodie Bailey-Ho on Making Sustainability a Core Competency
At 21, Jodie Bailey-Ho has already worked as a Department for Education youth focal point for sustainability and climate change, and currently serves as Student…
From Piecemeal to Mainstream: Charlotte Bonner on Universalising the Green Mindset in FE
The FE sector already does a great job of equipping learners for their lives and helping communities thrive. But according to Charlotte Bonner, CEO of…
(A)FE and Skills as Place-Based Green Changemakers, A Personal Reflection of the Green Mindset Collective
I’ve been working in AFE (intentionally remembering ‘adult) and Skills on a climate action programme for two years now. Green Changemakers is a systems-change green…
Beyond the Bolt-On: Dr Vikki Smith on Making Sustainability Instinctive in FE
The FE sector has a bolt-on problem. Sustainability gets added to curriculums, tacked onto strategies, and treated as another requirement to tick off. But what…