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Reducing resits and evidencing progress: a new approach to maths and English delivery

Across further education and apprenticeships, English and maths remain central to learner progression, employability and long-term opportunity.

Stronger learners start with supported educators

Further Education (FE) and skills professionals show up every day to change lives. They problem-solve, multi-task and can carry the weight of rising expectations with resilience and creativity. But this often leaves little time to pause, reflect, connect and grow. The FE and skills sector is driven by the power of learning. Yet the uncomfortable truth is that continuous professional development (CPD) often slips to the edges of the working week. And when that happens, everyone misses out.

Mark Botha, CEO, Knovia Group

Rugby-loving boss of Knovia Group Mark Botha has big plans for care, early years and dental training after learning to seize opportunities and take risks ‘Discover the limits of the possible by going beyond them into the impossible’, reads a slogan on the picture looming behind Mark Botha of a man skiing off a mountain […]

NEETs are turning a corner with our passport out of deprivation

A curriculum programme tailored to some of the hardest-to-reach young people should be expanded beyond Leeds and the West Midlands

Now it’s time for ITPs to step up on careers advice

Meeting the Gatsby Benchmarks framework of careers guidance should no longer be optional for ITPs

The robots have already marched into apprenticeships

AI tools could save training providers big bucks and improve quality. But at what cost?

The rock ’n’ roll career of MBKB boss Mark Bremner

To some, Mark Bremner is known as the boss who lets staff at his training business take as many holidays as they want. But to others he’s a builder, a failed barrister, tech nerd, record label founder, fantasy fiction writer and a frustrated rock music merchandiser. He was also once made bankrupt. His journey to […]

Sue Pittock and Rob Foulston, the duo with a remit for excellence

The formidable duo leading Remit Training, chief executive Sue Pittock and her chair Rob Foulston, are currently riding high after what Pittock sees as the best year of her career in 2023. Pittock scooped an OBE in January, Remit got top ‘outstanding’ marks from Ofsted for the first time in the summer, then the company […]

Prison Education unlocked: The system that’s failing its learners

The prison population is estimated to pass 100,000 by 2030. With re-offending rates starting to increase and new prison education contracts out to tender, Jessica Hill and Sophie Carlin explore this hidden world – and find out what needs to change After prisoners at HMP Warren Hill in Suffolk have been unlocked from their cells, […]