While we are all facing the onslaught of job losses, cuts and insecurity in the public and third sector, we also have to be balancing our ongoing need to support the young people we have been working for.

Increasing cuts like those announced to the young people’s advisory service mean that young people will be receiving even less support at time when things around them are more uncertain than ever.

In the short to medium term we need to effectively harness the existing information, services and opportunities that are out there, and link them together in a way that puts young people in a position of control, and empowered to access to support they need.

However, there are 3 key factors that we need to be aware if we’re trying to create an effective online tool to do this:

Billed as an ‘Inconvenient Truth’ for education, a new documentary from Lord Puttnam and Sir Michael Barber is exploring the UK education system.

Good News from the LSC?
This is not a headline anyone in the Learning and Skills sector would have expected following the LSC Capital project difficulties, which have left several colleges facing financial difficulties, and the Train 2 Gain funding shortfall which has strained the solvency of many work based learning providers.
But perhaps the LSC [...]

Catering for individual students who find it hard to engage in a traditional school environment can be difficult for overstretched schools. There are several organisations out there designed to help with just this problem, helping to engage pupils and therefore avoid increasing disinterest which can lead to truancy and drop-outs.