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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

4d | Skills reform
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New ‘class unit’ must decide what problem it’s trying to solve

Alun Francis

4d | Politics
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Low-attendance college students aren’t ‘hidden NEETs’

Eddie Playfair

4d | Students
Eddie Playfair
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English resits are treating the symptom, not the cause

Tony Davis

4d | Students
Tony Davis
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We’re losing the Saturday job and gaining a bigger problem

Mark Cameron

4d | Skills reform
Mark Cameron

The chancellor must raise apprenticeship funding bands

Robert Halfon

5d | Skills reform

The AI jobs debate is missing the skilled trades

Sharon Hague

5d | Skills reform

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

6d | Skills reform

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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

1w | Students
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Ofsted, stop treating young apprentices like school pupils

Kerry Boffey

1w | Ofsted
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Too much CPD in FE is simply performative

Caz Dolby

1w | Teaching
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You can’t understand FE from Whitehall alone

A former civil servant

1w | Politics
A former civil servant
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English and maths pass rates only tell half the story

Jordan James

1w | Assessment
Jordan James

We’ll listen to FE so V Levels work for everyone

Jacqui Smith

1w | Skills reform

Like a Great British Bake Off on steroids

Anna Trethewey

1w | WorldSkills
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Our college is building its own AI tools instead of relying on third parties

Chris Loveday

2w | Colleges
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Rural colleges are the missing piece of the industrial strategy

Jason Turton

2w | Colleges

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The stop-starts pressures on college apprenticeships

4d | Apprenticeships
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Levy under the lens with Milburn’s NEET review

1w | Apprenticeships
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New beginning for Norfolk FE’s local hero

1w | Colleges
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Inside Reform’s MAGA movement to make apprenticeships great again

2w | Politics
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‘SEND more to FE’ policy risks a raft of problems
3w | 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
30 Jul 2026 | Adult education
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Meet the Greater Manchester mayoral hopefuls: what have they said about FE and skills?
29 Jul 2026 | Politics