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‘Jobs’
To highlight the diversity of engineering careers that shape the world around us, the Royal Academy of Engineering recently celebrated This Is Engineering Day. But we have a problem, writes Rhys Morgan. There just aren’t enough young people joining the industry According to the latest data from EngineeringUK, we need up to 59,000 additional people […]
Opinion
With the General Election nearly upon us, Natspec’s Clare Howard has been assessing the three main parties’ promises as they battle to gain or remain in power The Education Select Committee’s October report scrutinising the 2014 reforms to Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) referred to “a treacle of bureaucracy… conflict… and despair”. So will […]
It seems the three main political parties have fallen out of love with apprenticeships, writes Karen Redhead, and the unintended consequences of reform may not be helping Four years and two general election campaigns ago, Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats competed to outdo each other on apprenticeships. While the debate has moved to a much […]
Six college leaders have shared the “heart-wrenching” impacts of government funding cuts after speaking anonymously to FE Week for the first time. We approached the principals and chief executives at this week’s Association of Colleges conference, who revealed how they have had to cut back significantly on staff, pay and provision. They, like anyone who […]
News
This morning the Labour Party launched their manifesto ahead of the general election on 12 December (click here to download). Here’s what the document says about FE and skills. Further Education and Lifelong Learning “With automation and the Green Industrial Revolution bringing major changes to industry, it is more important than ever that people have […]
Ex-Greene King boss Rooney Anand spoke of his excitement today as he made his debut as WorldSkills UK chair on the first day of the organisation’s LIVE! event. Anand told VIPs at a business breakfast at the Birmingham NEC, where the event is being held: “I hope, like me, you are very excited by what […]
A Labour government would train 80,000 people a year in a new climate apprenticeship programme, Jeremy Corbyn is expected to announce today. It is part of a raft of apprenticeship reforms being unveiled; including allowing levy funds to be spent on a wider range of accredited training and extending the time allowed for employers to […]
Ali Hadawi left FE for business. But as the principal of Central Bedfordshire College tells Jess Staufenberg, something just didn’t feel right Ali Hadawi tried to leave teaching once. It didn’t go well. He was in his third job in FE after starting off as a lecturer at Sheffield Polytechnic (as it was then) during […]
Profiles
Education giant City & Guilds announced today it has acquired its second training provider in two years. Intertrain, a large provider for the railway industry, is the latest acquisition after Gen2, which claims to be the largest training provider to the UK civil nuclear industry, joined in May 2017. City & Guilds Group declined to […]
