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Follow the adventures of FE Week’s biggest and smallest fan! Mostly this week I have been learning to walk! And also you can follow our FE Week mini-mascot on Twitter @daniellinford

The government’s Data Service promised to publish apprenticeship recruitment figures for 2010/11 today at 9.30am. They did not disappoint, and in the spirit of all things short, within eight minutes FE Week published their analysis of the figures (click here). Whilst the supplementary tables show the number of 16 year-olds starting apprenticeships rose just 1%  from […]

Every year colleges are asked to change not only the data that they send to government, but the software and management tools which they use to collect it. The Autumn College Data Conference held by Lsect was a chance for further education (FE) colleges to discuss good practise with experts and colleagues. The main conference […]

Follow the adventures of FE Week’s biggest and smallest fan! Mostly this week I have been getting excited about the Lion King in 3D And also you can follow our FE Week mini-mascot on Twitter @daniellinford

WorldSkills has been and gone, all the hype, the advertising, the supplements, the drum banging… and now the silence is deafening. Colleges try to whip up support from the media, but it’s short lived, the energy dissipates like the steam from the industry-standard hair straighteners once used to style a winner. The skills circus has […]

With a rush of activity and a buzz of excitement, the world’s largest international skills competition arrived on UK shores. WorldSkills London 2011 – dubbed the skills Olympics – engulfed ExCel London, on Wednesday ahead of four-days of competition to find the best-of-the-best the skills sector has to offer. Before the 944 competitors, representing 51 […]

FE Week News Reporter Nick Summers gets into the spirit of WorldSkills London 2011 by ‘having a go’ at the trade skills on offer WorldSkills has been cleverly dubbed the ‘skills Olympics’ – but to think of it merely as a tournament would be short-sighted. The aim of the event is not only to inspire […]