Workforce strategy

FE should lead recruitment – and ministers can make it happen 

Christian Warden reflects on recommendations for education and skills in the Building the Future Commission’s 2024 report

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Christian Warden
Workforce strategy

Worrying workforce data demands we focus more on adult skills

NFER analysis reveals a rocky road ahead for many sectors and a pressing need to make upskilling and reskilling...

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Luke Bocock
Workforce strategy

What Building Better Opportunities teaches us about stimulating labour market participation

Locally led, well-resourced and longer-term programmes could see us out of the current crisis in labour market participation, writes...

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Graham Duxbury
Workforce strategy

Colleges’ local solutions to global workforce problems

A roundtable of colleges from the US, Canada and the UK revealed innovative local solutions to surprising common challenges,...

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Ian Pretty
Workforce strategy

LSIPs will achieve little if we don’t upskill workers

The government must invest in adult education to help the millions already in the workforce who must upskill to...

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David Phoenix
Workforce strategy

FE should have a bigger role in addressing NHS challenges 

We need to rethink the way we’re recruiting and training the future NHS workforce and Bolton is showing how...

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Bill Webster