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Universities must be part of the next chapter of skills devolution

Paula Barker

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

3d | Adult education
Clare Chambers
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What’s in your learners’ emotional backpacks?

Clair Priest

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Clair Priest
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Forget AI cheating. Cognitive offloading is more of a worry

James Wells

3d | Teaching
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

1w | Skills reform
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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

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

Eddie Playfair

1w | Students
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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

1w | Skills reform

The chancellor must raise apprenticeship funding bands

Robert Halfon

1w | Skills reform

The AI jobs debate is missing the skilled trades

Sharon Hague

1w | Skills reform
Sharon Hague

Growth sectors need skills. Employer investment’s heading the wrong way

Anna Valero, LSE’s Centre for Economic PerformanceAadya Bahl, LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance

1w | Skills reform

We want medals, but WorldSkills is about much more

Marion Plant

1w | WorldSkills
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Hidden NEETs need help, not another college blame game

Claire Green

2w | Students
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Ofsted, stop treating young apprentices like school pupils

Kerry Boffey

2w | Ofsted
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Too much CPD in FE is simply performative

Caz Dolby

2w | Teaching

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How Burnham bounced FE into the policy spotlight

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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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Inside Reform’s MAGA movement to make apprenticeships great again
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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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