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‘Westminster Adult Education Service’

Kim Leadbeater MP

Sport-mad MP Kim Leadbeater, who entered politics after the murder of her sister Jo Cox, tells Jessica Hill she hopes to draw from her career in further education to champion the sector Kim Leadbeater offers me a can of Coke from a small fridge hidden away in her Westminster office, and cracks open one for […]

Profiles, Long read, Politics

Mapping the skills debate across the opposition benches

Thirty years after ‘education, education, education’: Where are we now?
A look at how today’s parties are positioning themselves on FE and skills

Feature, News, Long read, Skills reform

Tom Bewick, author of Skills Policy in Britain and the Future of Work

If history often rhymes, as Mark Twain once said, then Tom Bewick’s book, Skills Policy in England and the Future of Work, is a poignant poem of political déjà vu that should be required reading for our skills policymakers and shapers. As “a product of FE” who went on to help shape the skills system […]

Profiles, Long read, Skills reform

Reform plots a political tsunami, but skills policy is lost at sea

Farage’s turquoise tide: The insurgent party’s supporters want to fix ‘broken Britain’, insisting that trades and industrial automation are the key

Feature, News, Long read, Politics

Skills Bootcamps Are Changing – What FE Colleges Must Know 

Skills Bootcamps are evolving as funding moves to local control and digital skills trends shift. Code Institute, an Ofsted Outstanding provider, is hosting a webinar with FE college leaders from Westminster Adult Education Service (WAES) and City of Bristol College (COBC) to discuss what these changes mean in practice from those successfully navigating this changing landscape.

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Devolution white paper: Skills funding pots to be un-ringfenced

Mayors will also take on joint control of local skills improvement plans

News, Devolution, skills

King’s Birthday Honours 2024: Damehoods for Wolf and ex-UCAS boss

More than 20 people with links to skills recognised including an MBE for an apprentice solicitor

News

Curriculum planning to meet skills needs

In recent months, the UK Government made a big push towards matching colleges’ provision with that of the Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs). The DfE first launched a new pilot initiative to get more FE colleges to deliver skills bootcamps by streamlining the delivery process. Most recently, its Unit for Future Skills (UFS) published a prototype dashboard on local skills supply/demand to support colleges tie in their curriculum planning with LSIPs. Watch our on-demand webinar with our academic partners sharing best practice about how they have embedded high quality Full-Stack Software Developer Skills Bootcamp delivery using very different delivery models.

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William Pickford, principal, Redbridge Institute of Adult Education

William Pickford has had an “eclectic” 25-year career in FE which has seen him opening a college on a faraway tropical island, overseeing another as it was evicted due to local authority financial mismanagement, and now, leading London’s only ‘outstanding’ council-run adult education service.  Since 2021, he has been the principal of Redbridge Institute of […]

Profiles, Adult education, Long read