Colleges Successes and failures down under can guide FE reform here The UK’s FE system is stuck in silos. Lessons from New Zealand and Victoria in Australia show how bold… Jessica Hill 16h Liam Sloan 16h Apprenticeships Apprenticeships can staff from front desk to the front line of digital Apprenticeships give businesses a cost-effective way to upskill admin workers into digital and social media roles Jessica Hill 16h Lexie Cheesewright 16h digital skills Closing the digital divide: Beyond devices to true inclusion Covid forced colleges online overnight. But years later, too many still confuse digital access with digital inclusion, and learners… Jessica Hill 3d Imran Mir 3d Skills reform The post-16 white paper has the potential to deliver for businesses Last week’s white paper comes as Make UK’s latest research shows that three-quarters of manufacturers struggle to fill vacancies… Shane Chowen 3d Robert Halfon 3d V Levels New V Levels qualification must build on the best of BTECs V Levels must build on BTEC’s proven strengths if they’re to deliver the workforce the UK needs Jessica Hill 6d Freya Thomas Monk 6d AI AI is reshaping our minds, not just our jobs AI is reshaping the very fabric of human cognition and unless leaders act, workers will face a crisis of… Jessica Hill 6d Perry Perrott 6d V Levels V Levels can streamline, but beware a re-badging exercise The government’s vision for a simpler skills system is welcome, but real reform means tackling deep-rooted issues like staffing,… Jessica Hill 7d Robbie Maris 7d Ofsted Thriving providers are the ones who’ve stopped performing for Ofsted Too many providers let data sit in dashboards instead of using it to shape strategy. National Grid’s forensic, forward-looking… Jessica Hill 7d Kerry Boffey and Daniel Tingle 7d Skills reform We saved a social care workforce pathway cut off by level 3 reforms Around 31,000 learners were potentially left without a route into social care, but NCFE’s intervention could be the lifeline… Jessica Hill 1w David Rowley 1w Politics FE is no longer Cinderella, it’s the government’s Fairy Godmother The post-16 white paper shows that even fairy dust can’t hide the lack of a clear purpose behind yet… Jessica Hill 1w Holly Papworth 1w Legal changes Candour becomes law – what Hillsborough Law means for colleges Borne from the tragedy of the Hillsborough disaster, the new duty of candour will make ethical conduct a legal… Jessica Hill 1w Smita Jamdar and Kamal Chauhan 1w V Levels V Levels: a victory for vocational education, or another V sign to the FE sector? The government’s new V Levels promise a third pathway alongside A and T Levels. But are they a genuine… Jessica Hill 1w James Scott 1w 1 2 3 4 5 6 249 Older