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What Alan Milburn and I learned from the Dutch

David Hughes

David Hughes

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

Lauran Kerr-Heraly

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Our AI marking tool is designed to challenge teachers, not replace them

Scott Hayden

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Scott Hayden
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My dyslexia diagnosis changed the way I teach

Dr Chand Khan

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

Jane Rigbye

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Jane Rigbye
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England and America have each solved half the apprenticeships puzzle

Bruno V. Manno

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Training providers shouldn’t have to apologise for profit

Ben RowlandBen Pike

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A fake press release put our college in an AI-generated story

Claire Reynolds

1w | Colleges

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Building my own AI agent made me a better skills coach

Jamie Hibbert

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Burnham: If you want real technical parity, start with VAT

John Thornhill

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Financial independence should be the goal of careers education

Keith Conway

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Universities must be part of the next chapter of skills devolution

Paula Barker

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It’s time to end the academic-technical divide

Bill Jones

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Bill Jones
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Is the LLE really a ‘worklong learning entitlement’?

Clare Chambers

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Clare Chambers
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What’s in your learners’ emotional backpacks?

Clair Priest

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Forget AI cheating. Cognitive offloading is more of a worry

James Wells

2w | Teaching
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AI is moving fast. SME training is stuck in the slow lane

Allan Allison

2w | Apprenticeships
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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs

John YarhamDan Heffernan

3w | Skills reform

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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

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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
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Ofsted report cards: What have nine months taught us?
27 Aug 2026 | Ofsted