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12 October 2026

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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

Ben RowlandBen Pike

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A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

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Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach

Jamie Hibbert

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Jamie Hibbert
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Burnham: If you want real technical parity, start with VAT

John Thornhill

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John Thornhill
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Financial independence should be the goal of careers education

Keith Conway

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Keith Conway
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Universities must be part of the next chapter of skills devolution

Paula Barker

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It’s time to end the academic-technical divide

Bill Jones

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Is the LLE really a ‘worklong learning entitlement’?

Clare Chambers

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What’s in your learners’ emotional backpacks?

Clair Priest

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Forget AI cheating. Cognitive offloading is more of a worry

James Wells

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AI is moving fast. SME training is stuck in the slow lane

Allan Allison

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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

2w | Skills reform
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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

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Alun Francis
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Low-attendance college students aren’t ‘hidden NEETs’

Eddie Playfair

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Eddie Playfair
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English resits are treating the symptom, not the cause

Tony Davis

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We’re losing the Saturday job and gaining a bigger problem

Mark Cameron

2w | Skills reform

The chancellor must raise apprenticeship funding bands

Robert Halfon

2w | Skills reform

The AI jobs debate is missing the skilled trades

Sharon Hague

2w | Skills reform

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Dale’s mission to ride a zipline of happiness

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Bickering big beasts’ sideshow is Tory skills highlight

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The stop-starts pressures on college apprenticeships

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Levy under the lens with Milburn’s NEET review

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New beginning for Norfolk FE’s local hero
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‘SEND more to FE’ policy risks a raft of problems
3 Sep 2026 | Inclusion
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Ofsted report cards: What have nine months taught us?
27 Aug 2026 | Ofsted
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SWAP job outcomes hit lowest rate as starts surge
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