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Why we’re bringing employers into education earlier

Laraine Moody

Laraine Moody

2d | Colleges
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More apprenticeships mean little if young people can’t complete them

Billy Huband-Thompson

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Colleges must help shape devolution, not simply adapt to it

David Hughes

2d | Skills reform
David Hughes
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A murder trial changed my career – and how I see education

Lisa Stubbs

2d | Inclusion
Lisa Stubbs
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Teaching English is the easiest part of my job

Jane Botros

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Jane Botros
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Don’t let the pursuit of rigour undermine vocational reform

Richard Harry

2d | Skills reform

The learning age never ended. The funding just dried up

Stephen Evans

4d | Adult education
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No plumbers, no homes: The skills crisis threatening Britain’s building ambitions

Chris Claydon

1w | Apprenticeships

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Misogyny is changing our classrooms – and colleges need help

Peter Ejedewe

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Getting young people into jobs is only half the battle

Petra Wilton

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Fewer classes, fewer teachers, more time behind cell doors

Cassie Edmiston

1w | Prison education
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V Levels must earn trust A Levels built over generations

Andrew Parkin

1w | Assessment

Little for FE in the budget, but the hard choices are coming

Imran Tahir

1w | Politics
Imran Tahir

Devolution must not treat London as the place that copes

Rob West

1w | Adult education
Rob West

Colleges, don’t wait for all the answers on qualification reform

Shelley Brown

1w | Colleges

Defining antisemitism won’t silence debate on Israel

Josh MacAlister

2w | Colleges
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FE can help turn the tap on for nursing’s leaky pipeline

Ella Reynolds

2w | Teaching
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Our students need more than hope in a world on fire

Dr Ruth Valerio

2w | Students

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What apprentices may lose in the great AI efficiency race

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Can Kaynat Ahmad give FE students their voice back?

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Sharing the story of their lives, from the frontline of FE

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The Tory mayor confronting a postcode lottery in opportunity

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Dale’s mission to ride a zipline of happiness
8 Oct 2026 | Colleges
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Bickering big beasts’ sideshow is Tory skills highlight
8 Oct 2026 | Politics
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The stop-starts pressures on college apprenticeships
24 Sep 2026 | Apprenticeships
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Levy under the lens with Milburn’s NEET review
17 Sep 2026 | Apprenticeships