Apprenticeships

Accounting needs to modernise so we can tackle the skills gap

Our skills report reveals businesses increasingly need strategic input from accountancy teams but are struggling to train staff for...

Jessica Hill
Sarah Beale
Skills reform

Fake cards, real risks: building sites need digital skills passports

We shouldn’t be relying on plastic CSCS cards to stop corruption and ensure safety when a secure digital alternative...

Jessica Hill
Paul Devlin
The Staffroom - opinion

AI will provide the fake evidence that wrecks teachers’ lives

The technology is out there for students with a grudge to unleash hell, so why aren’t ministers and unions...

Jessica Hill
David Murray
Lifelong Learning

We need a ‘UCAS for adults’ and the DWP can help develop it

A comprehensive national careers advice service, backed by skilled professionals, could do more for lifelong learning than any new...

Jessica Hill
Andy Forbes
16-19, Qualifications, Skills reform

We need to deliver a new V Level vision for Level 3

The new qualification family promises to simplify the post-16 landscape, but success will depend on how well we protect...

Jessica Hill
Lisa O'Loughlin and John Laramy
Colleges

We don’t need a school-style enrichment framework, we need one built for FE

In an age of social media anxiety and digital overload, enrichment shouldn't be a luxury – it’s how we...

Jessica Hill
Lisa Humphries
Adult education, Long read

The wounded mothership: the WEA navigates adult education’s new era

Jessica Hill meets the WEA’s chief executive Simon Parkinson at the group’s new Brighton base to hear how the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Higher education, Skills reform

Don’t knock pathways – they’re a front door to higher education

Foundation years and CertHEs suffer an image problem, but they foster collaboration between FE and HE and ensure students...

Jessica Hill
Gianina Harvey-Brewin
workforce shortages

Nuclear needs people power

With one in three workers nearing retirement and too few recruits in the pipeline, the nuclear industry’s biggest challenge...

Jessica Hill
Mark Rouse