What is SIF (The Skills Injection Fund)? FE Soundbite Edition 698
Welcome to Soundbite Edition 698! 10th June 2023: Have you heard about the new £48M SIF (Skills Injection Fund) for HTQs? This is the weekly…
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Business Survey points to need for tech skills education
The IoD Directors’ Economic Confidence Index, which measures business leader optimism in prospects for the UK economy, stabilised at -6 in May 2023, little changed…
Are Term-time workers entitled to National Minimum Wage for 52 weeks? FE Soundbite 694
Are Term-time workers entitled to National Minimum Wage for 52 weeks? FE Soundbite 694 (13th May 2023). This is the weekly e-newsletter and e-journal brought…
Why the skills gap is pointing organisations towards apprenticeships and turning higher education on its head
In this article, Sheila Flavell discusses how the skills gap and rising costs of higher education are leading organizations to consider apprenticeships as a solution.…
Text-based coding is the key to bridging the digital skills gap
Nothing emphasises the shortage of technical skills in the UK workforce as much as the fact that the UK economy is losing £6.3 billion in…
Cyber security needs a makeover if we are to meet skills demand
With a new report showing the skills gap growing, James Lane, Sector Manager for Digital, Creative and Design at the educational charity NCFE, marks the…
Let’s give students the tools they need to achieve
Exam season is over, and we are well into a new academic year. Over the last couple of months, we have seen the drip feed…
New EDSK report on employer investment in skills and the apprenticeship levy
With the looming prospect of a recession adding to the cost-of-living crisis, a new report from the education think tank EDSK finds that staff shortages…
How can organisations best train and assess the skills of their employees?
Counting the cost Many organisations across the UK have long identified growing skills gaps (I prefer to refer to this as a ‘skills shortage’, but…
Why Big Tech wants Computer Science to be the New Algebra
Earlier this month, the CEOs of hundreds of top US tech companies, including Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft, as well as universities and non-profits…