Code Institute | FE Week

Skills Bootcamps Are Changing – What FE Colleges Must Know

Skills Bootcamps are evolving as funding moves to local control and digital skills trends shift. Code Institute, an Ofsted Outstanding provider, is hosting a webinar with FE college leaders from Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) and City of Bristol College (COBC) to discuss what these changes mean in practice from those successfully navigating this changing landscape.

The college roadmap to AI maturity – and a reskilled workforce

AI is poised to drive economic growth, reshape jobs, and transform industries, demanding urgent upskilling. Education must swiftly adapt, integrating responsible AI to prepare students for tomorrow’s workforce. With Whitehall’s £1.1bn commitment to “skill-up the UK,” Code Institute’s latest white paper guides college leaders in moving from fragmented AI adoption to a strategic, cohesive approach. Discover key insights, real-world college experiences, and actionable steps for AI integration, to lead confidently in reskilling efforts and an AI-powered future.

Curriculum planning to meet skills needs

In recent months, the UK Government made a big push towards matching colleges’ provision with that of the Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs). The DfE first launched a new pilot initiative to get more FE colleges to deliver skills bootcamps by streamlining the delivery process. Most recently, its Unit for Future Skills (UFS) published a prototype dashboard on local skills supply/demand to support colleges tie in their curriculum planning with LSIPs. Watch our on-demand webinar with our academic partners sharing best practice about how they have embedded high quality Full-Stack Software Developer Skills Bootcamp delivery using very different delivery models.

Delivering Diverse Tech Talent at Scale While Delivering the Quality and Outcomes Employers Need

As part of our journey for this white paper, we talked to decision makers in SMEs and global organisations, including diversity leaders from the BBC, AXA, and tech giant Red Hat. An emerging theme from our conversations was that employers and educators must collaborate meaningfully to train and employ diverse talent.
Explore how FE and HE colleges in England are attracting diverse learners and scaling the delivery of diverse tech talent to meet employer needs.

Levelling up Access to Further Education Whitepaper

Colleges are searching for the alchemy to transform great face-to-face teaching into a powerful virtual course that meets the growing demand for digital skills. Have they now found a solution where technology and pedagogy are one?

FE Colleges Win with Out-of-the-Box Digital Skills

Newcastle College upped its digital skills capabilities by partnering with an edtech specialist, Code Institute, on the creation and delivery of a Level 5 Diploma in Web Application Development – meeting a critical skills need for employers and learners. Ironically, this story began pre-pandemic in October 2020. Like many FE colleges Newcastle were in a […]