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
Lexie Cheesewright
Inclusion

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
Imran Mir
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
Robert Halfon
Young people

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
Freya Thomas Monk
Teaching

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
Perry Perrott
Young people

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
Robbie Maris


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
Kerry Boffey and Daniel Tingle
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
David Rowley
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
Holly Papworth
Colleges

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
Smita Jamdar and Kamal Chauhan
Young people

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
James Scott
Adult education

White paper misses the mark by omitting adults

The post-16 education and skills white paper could have been the defining moment for a genuine lifelong learning revolution….

Jessica Hill
Dipa Ganguli and Caroline McDonald