Nobody could have predicted the effect the pandemic would have on our lives. Indeed, nothing has challenged the status quo quite like it. Over the past 18 months, we’ve faced huge trials and witnessed incredible…

@ukEdgePolicy appointed specialist adviser to Lords Committee on Youth Unemployment Edge’s Executive Director Olly Newton has been appointed as a Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on…

It doesn’t seem so long ago that the Edge Foundation was writing about ‘the rise of the BTEC’ and how this qualification was gaining currency amongst universities on a par with A-levels. Students are…

There is definitely an air of pyromania in the National Apprenticeship Service’s latest campaigns to promote apprenticeships. After exhorting young people to ‘#FireIt Up’, they are now encouraged during…

With the festive season in mind, I recently read that for each of the world’s two billion children to receive one toy at Christmas, Santa’s elves would need to produce four toys per hour, 16 hours a day, 364…

Henri Matisse said, ‘Creativity takes courage.’ As teachers are increasingly burdened with the demands of the EBacc, Progress 8 and a whole host of measures to record, resisting the pressure to ‘teach to the…

In Camilla Turner’s Telegraph article last week, Nick Hillman, HEPI Director is quoted: “It is a good thing that these people [BTEC students] are going into higher education. But they do have clearly a…

Former skills minster and current chair of the Education Select Committee, Rob Halfon MP, has called for GCSEs to be scrapped. The exams regulator Ofqual reports that the number of people who understand…