digital skills

We’re training brilliant digital talent only for employers to overlook them

While ITPs race ahead on AI, skills and retraining, hiring practices remain stuck in the past

Jessica Hill
Ben Cheema
Colleges

A volunteer-led approach could break the resit failure cycle  

The new 100-hour rule for English and maths may increase teaching time, but without personalised support, it won’t shift...

Jessica Hill
Tim Dalton
NEETs

The NEET crisis won’t be solved by fashionable theories

Billions in piecemeal initiatives won’t reverse youth inactivity, and claims of ‘deficit thinking’ risk obscuring what’s actually happening. Only...

Jessica Hill
Alun Francis
Apprenticeships

I was NEET for 2 years. Developing soft skills saved my future

My journey from automated rejections to an RSC apprenticeship shows why soft-skills programmes aren’t a ‘nice to have’, they’re...

Jessica Hill
Hassan Ahmed
Mental Health

There’s widening participation, but narrowing mental health support

More disadvantaged learners are entering FE and HE, but stretched services mean many can’t access the help they need

Jessica Hill
Imran Mir
Colleges

The AI governor is in the boardroom

AI offers clarity, speed and strategic insight, but only if boards are brave enough to evolve. The augmented governor...

Jessica Hill
Perry Perrott
Governance

Chair of governors’ journey is as perilous as a motorbike ride

Leading a college governance team presents dangers every bit as daunting as a pool of oil in the road...

Jessica Hill
Michael Davis
ESOL

ESOL addresses skills shortages; cutting it’s counterproductive

National policy around improving people’s English needs a sharper focus or it risks being undermined by opposition at regional...

Jessica Hill
Diana Sutton
Colleges

When you look, suicide dangers are everywhere in our colleges

Given the numbers of students who take their own lives, we must seek answers to the crisis unfolding across...

Jessica Hill
David Murray