construction

The construction industry can’t build the future without diversity

Major housebuilding, infrastructure and retrofitting projects mean the construction industry must look wider to find new streams of workers

Jessica Hill
Annelee Roscoe
Skills reform

Wakefield will grow supply and demand together for high-skills jobs

Our proposed new skills centre could be the key to breaking the cycle of low skills and low pay...

Jessica Hill
Professor Chris Husbands
Lifelong Learning

We’re joining the dots to create lifelong learning in the North East

Bringing higher education into the centre of regional planning is vital for the LLE to succeed, and we’re already...

Jessica Hill
Professor René Koglbauer
SEND

SEND reforms for schools won’t solve FE’s high-needs problems

If FE is made to take medicine for symptoms it is not suffering from, being bunched in with schools...

Jessica Hill
Ruth Perry
Apprenticeships

Achievement rate is a broken metric. It’s time to judge apprenticeships by pass rates

For too long, achievement rates have distorted what quality in apprenticeships really means, punishing providers who take risks and...

Jessica Hill
Daniel Waterhouse
Politics

Skills policy just moved house, and the neighbourhood matters

Every department brings its own instincts. In the DWP, skills will be filtered through a jobs lens. That could...

Jessica Hill
Alex Morris
The Staffroom - opinion

AI isn’t just for coders, it’s the new digital literacy every learner needs

Barnsley College’s ‘Introduction to AI’ course shows how colleges can turn a perceived threat into a practical tool for...

Jessica Hill
Daniel Wright
Careers guidance

We need to rethink careers guidance for a changing generation

Careers guidance in the UK is stuck in the past, leaving too many young people without pathways into meaningful...

Jessica Hill
Natasha Eason
Colleges

Rethinking PD: How colleges can build learning cultures

A new guide offers evidence-based steps for leaders to design PD which inspires staff, drives improvement and transforms outcomes...

Jessica Hill
Kath Davies