Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships can staff from front desk to the front line of digital

Apprenticeships give businesses a cost-effective way to upskill admin workers into digital and social media roles

Jessica Hill
Lexie Cheesewright
Long read, Training Providers

Her PET project

For 30 years Fleur Sexton has led training provider PET-Xi, with its staff of largely neurodiverse leaders and can-do...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Skills reform

We saved a social care workforce pathway cut off by level 3 reforms

Around 31,000 learners were potentially left without a route into social care, but NCFE’s intervention could be the lifeline...

Jessica Hill
David Rowley
Legal changes

Candour becomes law – what Hillsborough Law means for colleges

Borne from the tragedy of the Hillsborough disaster, the new duty of candour will make ethical conduct a legal...

Jessica Hill
Smita Jamdar and Kamal Chauhan
Skills reform

A guarantee isn’t enough… our youth deserve a work promise

Without a permanent, connected strategy linking education, skills and work, we’ll keep treating the symptoms of youth unemployment, and...

Jessica Hill
Laura-Jane Rawlings
Skills reform

Trainee mechanics must be tooled up or the EV revolution falls flat 

Colleges must provide electric vehicle-specific training and tooling to avoid students attempting dangerous bodges in the real world

Jessica Hill
David Martin
The Staffroom - opinion

EDL confrontation underlined why Black History is more than a month

We need to ingrain the aims of Black History Month into college life to counteract the messages students hear...

Jessica Hill
Ellisha Soanes
T Levels

My T Level journey at the Sharp end of digital skills

T Levels Week: Luca Jaworski says his digital T Level provided an effective blend of academic study and...

Jessica Hill
Luca Jaworski
Apprenticeships

Let’s ensure that apprenticeship reform doesn’t set us back a decade

A lack of detail about upcoming reforms means skills sector partners are not speaking with one voice

Jessica Hill
Sarah Beale