For many of our learners, particularly those working at lower levels, this is like asking my eldest child to wait 20 minutes ...

England’s apprenticeship budget will grow to £3.3 billion in 2026-27, FE Week has learned. The figure represents a 5.8 per cent rise on the current £3.118 billion allocation, ...

Nearly half our apprentices are young apprentices, and the fact this is unusual is a problem we need to address. Many Western ...

Preventing young people becoming NEET is not achieved through a single initiative; it requires sustained partnership with ...

A long-awaited level 2 administration assistant apprenticeship will only be available to learners aged under 25. Work and ...

The government wants 6,500 more teachers in schools and colleges, but the FE workforce is a patchwork of roles and titles ...

Kerry Boffey, the FIN CEO mixes straight-talking advice with a fierce belief that quality improvement, not box-ticking, is ...

Funding axe will also kick in immediately for providers with no recorded starts on affected standards in 2024-25 and 2025-26 ...

V Levels and the new Level 2 pathways remain broadly unchanged, but there’s more than meets the eye to this response document ...

By redesigning our timetable we treated preparation for adult life as a core purpose Our learners had the qualifications, but ...

A “tick-box” culture at many UK employers means health and safety training is prioritised over productivity-boosting skills, ...

Team leader is the most popular apprenticeship to lose funding. Approved for delivery in 2016, it clocked 12,670 starts in the last full academic year (2024-25) across 450 training providers. Only 80 ...