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We need to rethink careers guidance for a changing generation

Careers guidance in the UK is stuck in the past, leaving too many young people without pathways into meaningful work

Opinion, Careers guidance

Pat’s skills nightmare: The kitchen is on fire

If Gordon Ramsay walked into today’s skills sector, he would be screaming. Funding is broken, bureaucracy is bloated and expectations are sky-high. The system does not need another garnish – it needs a complete menu overhaul

Opinion, Skills reform

We need the same rigour of teaching in colleges as in schools

Schools soared up the international league tables under Gove and Gibb. Colleges, by contrast, remain the poor relation. It’s time to bring evidence and rigour to FE through a ‘skills standards’ revolution

Opinion, Skills reform

FE to get ‘extra £800m’ next year as Starmer ‘scraps’ 50% uni target

PM replaces Blair’s mantra with a new goal that includes FE and apprenticeships and teases post-16 white paper plans

News, Skills reform

Labour conference 2025: Pat McFadden’s full speech

The work and pensions secretary, who now controls most of the skills brief, addressed the party’s annual conference in Liverpool

News, Skills reform

Chancellor to ‘guarantee’ job or training place to young NEETs

New scheme to strip benefits from young people that refuse work or training in a bid to tackle rising NEETs

News, Young people

Creative industries can’t thrive without apprenticeships

The UK’s creative industries outstrip aerospace and automotive combined, but a lack of highly skilled workers threatens to derail their future growth

Opinion, Apprenticeships

Trust AI to help deliver FE’s promise of personalised learning

FE Colleges are sitting on a depth of data. With AI, that data becomes a tool for better teaching, earlier intervention, and stronger student outcomes

Opinion, AI

Ofsted launches search for new post-16 and skills boss

Permanent replacement for Paul Joyce will join watchdog after inspection reform rollout

News, Ofsted