AoC Blog

‘It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him’ said JRR Tolkien in The Hobbit, and I must say that as I look...

Mergers, devolution of the adult education budget, Ofsted inspections, Post-16 Skills Plan and T Levels, apprenticeship reforms, GCSE reforms,...

In this week's Autumn Budget, the Treasury announced an £80 million budget for post-16 maths. It is not clear where the money comes from or how it...

Today's Autumn budget comes at a tricky time for the government in its negotiations with the European Union (EU). The UK wants to move the...

I don’t envy the Chancellor in the weeks leading up his Budget speech on 22nd November. I’ve experienced what it is like from a Departmental...

Here’s what I would like the Chancellor to say when he stands up to present his Autumn Budget on 22nd November. “Mr Speaker, Our country faces...

It’s now less than four weeks until the Chancellor of the Exchequer announces his Autumn Budget. My message to Philip Hammond is simple. What’s...

Last week saw Team UK take on the world in the ‘Skills Olympics’, or WorldSkills as they are officially known. The competition, held every two years...

Employability and technical or vocational skills are on the agenda to help support the nation's productivity. At the Association of Colleges, we are...

It wasn’t many years ago that talking about mental health issues was a taboo subject. It was rarely discussed publicly and when it was there were...