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28 October 2026

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

Shelley Brown

Shelley Brown

11h | Colleges

Defining antisemitism won’t silence debate on Israel

Josh MacAlister

4d | Colleges
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FE can help turn the tap on for nursing’s leaky pipeline

Ella Reynolds

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Ella Reynolds
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Our students need more than hope in a world on fire

Dr Ruth Valerio

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Dr Ruth Valerio
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The overlooked question in the NEETs debate: Who will hire them?

Emily Rock

5d | Skills reform
Emily Rock
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What I learned in my first 42 days as an FE lecturer

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5d | FE workforce
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Don’t ban AI in FE classrooms, teach students how to use it

Dr Behrooz Javanmard

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The tech sector is growing. Its entry-level opportunities aren’t

James Turner

1w | Apprenticeships

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What Alan Milburn and I learned from the Dutch

David Hughes

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You can deliver a pizza. You don’t deliver learning

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

1w | Teaching
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Our AI marking tool is designed to challenge teachers, not replace them

Scott Hayden

1w | Teaching
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My dyslexia diagnosis changed the way I teach

Dr Chand Khan

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If lifelong learning is for everyone, it must reach our prisons

Jane Rigbye

1w | Adult education
Jane Rigbye
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England and America have each solved half the apprenticeships puzzle

Bruno V. Manno

1w | Apprenticeships
Bruno V. Manno
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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

Ben RowlandBen Pike

2w | Training providers
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A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

2w | Colleges
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Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach

Jamie Hibbert

2w | Teaching
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Burnham: If you want real technical parity, start with VAT

John Thornhill

2w | Colleges

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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

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Bickering big beasts’ sideshow is Tory skills highlight

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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
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New beginning for Norfolk FE’s local hero
17 Sep 2026 | Colleges
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‘SEND more to FE’ policy risks a raft of problems
3 Sep 2026 | Inclusion