Disadvantaged apprentices are significantly more likely to drop out from their training, research has found, sparking calls for greater support for learners from poorer and ethnic minority backgrounds feweek.co.uk/disadvantage...

✍️LETTER TO THE EDITOR ✍️ 'In recent weeks, each of us has witnessed attempts to sow division in our communities, particularly the targeting of migrants and minority groups. We feel compelled to speak out against ugly racist attacks, reminiscent of the 1970s and 1980s.' feweek.co.uk/letter-to-th...

🌍 Peace isn’t found in treaties or speeches, but in the everyday acts of kindness and unity that colleges can nurture, writes @palvindersingh.bsky.social #InternationalDayOfPeace feweek.co.uk/world-peace-...

Results seasons reminds me of this wonder poem by Hussain Manawer. Your Future’s Good! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB0t...

"When you have a SEND child, you're battling all the time. And it never stops." Brilliant report from @channel4news.bsky.social on the impact of post-16 SEND transport cuts to students and their families. h/t @natspec.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CAA...

Palestinians gunned down while trying to reach food aid site in Gaza, hospital says

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Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. We looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline and found a range of false and misleading information being amplified. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

“Expecting colleges to do more with the same money is simply unsustainable and limits the support they can give.” - David Hughes, AoC Chief Executive. Read more: www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...

‘It’s an utter distortion of the truth’ Andrew Norfolk, the journalist who broke the grooming gangs story 14 years ago, tells The News Agents he wants to 'set the record straight.' @maitlis | @lewis_goodall

Pleased to share our report & videos showcasing how colleges are delivering on the government's missions www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...

The wide range of people willing to share a quote in support of this shows the complex web of relationships colleges have. Doing their jobs as systems leaders, anchor institutions and vital local partners

Art showcasing Scottish Sikh community wins Turner Prize www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Child poverty has got a whole lot worse. Spending on children has gone up, but increasing amounts of it has gone into the price of failure rather than early intervention and prevention.” www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

Yesterday, Greater Manchester approved free travel passes for young people who have experienced care up until the age of 25. Through devolution, important progressive steps continue to be made.

🎉 A north east college group has received Ofsted’s highest marks after going through a 'relentless' improvement journey College lauded for student care in the aftermath of this year’s riots and inspectors were 'moved to tears' after seeing other 'life-changing' work feweek.co.uk/relentless-j...

Great to hear @hughesdavid.bsky.social on BBC Radio 5 Live's Wake up to Money this morning discussing the government's Get Britain Working White Paper. Listen from 31:30 here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

“We need an influential, powerful and authoritative Skills England to help build a stronger, fairer, more inclusive and more productive economy" says @hughesdavid.bsky.social in this @financialtimes.com piece on Skills England. Read more: www.ft.com/content/6cb3...

Good to see @pmdfoster.bsky.social highlighting risk Skills England will be too low wattage to make a difference. Still time to make sure that's not the case & focus it on employer demand for skills as well as supply. . www.ft.com/content/6cb3...

Here’s some thoughts from me and Chris Husbands on how colleges & universities need to work together www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/11/25/a...

“We have to move away from the notion that #GCSEs are a rite of passage to be endured,” says ASCL Curriculum and Assessment Specialist @tommiddlehurst.bsky.social following ASCL's submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review: ow.ly/e68Z50UcyrG #education #assessment #curriculum #exams

We are pleased to announce that AoC Sport’s Student Leadership Programme has become an accredited award through the Leadership Skills Foundation. Find out more here: www.aoc.co.uk/news-campaig...

🧱 Construction industry bodies have announced plans for 32 'new skills hubs' in a bid to fill housebuilding skills gaps with 'fast-track' training for up to 5,000 apprentices each year by 2028 feweek.co.uk/32-new-homeb...

More and more first-time buyers are turning to the 'Bank of Mum and Dad,' to get on the property ladder; allowing some to buy sooner, buy bigger homes, and with a smaller mortgage. But not everyone has access to the 'Bank of Mum and Dad.'

If to be ‘woke’ means “to be alive to the insights, contexts and needs of others; to aim to be well-informed, thoughtful, compassionate, tolerant, respectful & kind, to want to make the world a better place for all people & all living things”, then sign me up for that challenge!

Great to hear Jacqui Smith, Skills Minister, speak to 1000 college leaders at @aoc-info.bsky.social annual conference about need to change culture - lifelong learning, reaching all, a love of learning, tertiary vision linking colleges with universities, less competition www.gov.uk/government/s...