Looking Ahead at 2026
The final months of 2025 brought a flurry of government announcements across FE and skills, from the Post-16 White Paper and apprenticeship assessment reforms to…
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Education and Business Leaders Urge Government to Back SME Apprenticeships to Boost Growth and Youth Opportunity
In advance of Small Business Saturday, A coalition of leading education, skills, and business organisations has issued an open letter to the Secretary of State…
Recruit and Train Programme supports business growth and upskilling for SMEs in the Cardiff Capital Region
As part of Cardiff Capital Region’s Cluster Development and Growth Programme, Cardiff and Vale College is helping to stimulate the growth of small businesses with…
How FE can Bridge the Finance Skills Gap
The UK is facing a financial skills shortage, a challenge that threatens not only the long-term viability of the finance industry, but the sustainability of…
New Award Launched to Recognise Top Management Publications
With just one week left to nominate, a new national prize aims to recognise the UK’s leading voices in business and management. The Management Publication…
2.4m SMEs reluctant to adopt AI pose growth threat to next government
@bethebusiness: 2.4 million business leaders could be left behind by the advances in AI, posing a huge economic risk to the UK, recent findings have…
How can we deliver a simplified, high-quality apprenticeship system?
In the third of five articles for FE News themed around their Skills Means Growth vision for a sustainable skills system, AELP outlines how we…
Berkeley commits £100k of Apprenticeship Levy to SMEs
Berkeley Group has committed £100,000 of unallocated Apprenticeship Levy to enable London’s small construction businesses to take on more apprentices. The contribution is part of…
How to take your business to the next level: a guide to successful growth
Start-ups, and small to medium sized organisations are fundamental to the business landscape, in fact, recent figures from FSB show that SMEs accounted for 99.9%…
Oxford Business College’s Platinum Support for SMEs
Oxford Business College has been praised after becoming a Platinum sponsor, one of the first educational organisations in the UK to step forward and support…