Employers commonly bemoan the further and higher education system's failure to prepare young people with the skills and attributes they need to succeed in the world of work. Work experience is one of the best ways for young people further and higher education, such as university students, to prepare for the challenges that starting work will bring.
There has been a rise in recent months in the number of young people in the UK not in education, employment or training.
Skills England has published its latest data on future employment needs and the skills that will be required to fulfil...
There has been a decline in skills shortage vacancies according to new figures from the Department for Education.
Hundreds of Liverpool university staff are to stage additional strikes in their dispute over hybrid-working arrangements.
The government needs to step up efforts to boost student enrolment and employer engagement with T-Levels if the qualification is to achieve its intended impact
The education secretary has written to Skills England setting out the government’s priorities for skills development in the year ahead.
The sharp decline in international student enrolment was not only a threat to the sector’s financial sustainability but to the UK’s broader economic prospects, it was claimed.
University of East Anglia staff began nine days of strike action yesterday (1 May) over a threat of compulsory redundancies and lack of financial transparency.
Broken down, the full-time equivalent job losses consisted of 197 academic roles, 119 school-based professional services posts in schools, and 316 directorate roles.
The University of Sussex has accused higher regulation regulator the Office for Students of mounting a ‘vindictive and unreasonable campaign’ against it.
Law school was asked: ‘First, have you eliminated all DEI from your school and its curriculum? Second, if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in any way, will you move swiftly to remove it?’
As many as 10,000 university jobs could go as higher education in the UK faces an “unprecedented crisis”, a union warns.
The fall in the number of international students has led Bangor University to place about 200 jobs under risk of redundancy, its vice-chancellor has told staff in an email.
Staff at Coventry University are threatening to strike after learning that around 100 workers could lose their jobs.
A new CIPD study reveals poor perceptions of young people at work, with 52% of UK employers believing they are not ready for the workplace.
