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24 April 2026

Unwrapping the White Paper – Live Stream

Join FE Week live for Unwrapping the White Paper – a sector briefing with the Minister for Skills exploring key reforms shaping the future of post-16 education, training, and skills.

FE’s educational ethos is being overshadowed by market logic

The vocabulary of employability and finance is taking over, writes Zahid Naz In recent years there has been a shift away from the social values of education towards a form of economic rationality with two main concerns. This can be seen in the strategic direction of policy initiatives, such as the 2019 education inspection framework […]

More employers want technical skills delivered via FE, not university

Businesses are tired of graduates not having the right technical skills – but the FE white paper and other changes allow colleges to step in, writes Mark Smith The word ‘university’ is derived from the Latin word universus, meaning ‘whole, entire’. In a strictly academic sense, it is the shortening of the Latin phrase universitas magistrorum et […]