Opinion

Industrial strategy: what’s missing is what matters

Given the challenges the UK’s society and economy now faces, the industrial strategy is a rather small, faltering step,...

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
News

£10m adult flexible learning fund launches

Up to £10 million is now available to help providers develop new ways of supporting adults to progress or...

Jude Burke
Jude Burke
News

Institutes of technology £170m windfall going to existing providers

The extra £170 million the government has promised to set aside for a new wave of “prestigious” institutes of...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
News

Cable delighted with industrial strategy commitment to adult education

The former secretary of state for business, innovation and skills has told FE Week he is “delighted” that the...

Alix Robertson
Alix Robertson
Opinion

Industrial strategy? FE needs proper funding

Government’s ‘new industrial strategy’ is another grandiose vision that lacks funding and changes nothing in practice, says Sally Hunt....

Expert Contributor
Expert Contributor
News

Breaking: Industrial strategy green paper explains plan for Institutes of Technology ‘in all areas’

The government’s new industrial strategy green paper has fleshed out what it expects from a “prestigious” new network of Institutes...

Paul Offord
Paul Offord
Opinion

Institutes of Technology are the right idea; now we must make sure they deliver

Today’s announcement confirms that technical education should be at the heart of the UK’s modern industrial strategy. This is...

Ian Pretty
Ian Pretty