…Minister for Adult Skills, Department for Education and Skills 2001 – 2002 Director of Communications, Sector Skills Development Agency 1997 – 2001 Labour Party then government advisor on skills policy…
5.00 Sep. 17th, 2018 | Profiles
…the government should be dropping damaging policies like resits and allow students to actually learn relevant maths and English through functional skills. “We shouldn’t be subjecting tens of thousands of…
9.30 Aug. 23rd, 2018 | News
JB Skills Training, set up in 2014, delivered mainly functional skills provision on behalf of 10 lead providers in 2017/18. According to the Education and Skills Funding Agency’s most recent…
17.30 Aug. 15th, 2018 | News
Midlands was chosen as the first combined authority for the skills deal because it is the region with the most acute skills challenge, the DfE said. It has the largest…
0.01 Jul. 18th, 2018 | News
A feisty commons education select committee meeting, held this morning, saw Anne Milton quizzed on a number of pressing FE topics. The skills minister offered a few outlandish opinions while…
15.11 Jul. 17th, 2018 | News
…increase framework rates at level two where there is no alternative standard. “They want a ring-fenced budget for non-levy, they want to increase functional skills funding to be double where…
11.30 Jul. 6th, 2018 | News
The CBI believes the government is on the wrong track with its current skills system. Neil Carberry sets out the ways in which he would change things People are fond…
5.00 Jun. 28th, 2018 | Opinion
The skills minister has launched a new £22 million fund to help tackle construction skills shortages. The 18-month scheme will be overseen by the Construction Industry Training Board and funded…
12.33 Jun. 18th, 2018 | News
Dr Sue Pember hails Sadiq Khan’s bold and far-reaching new skills and adult education plan for the capital The launch of the mayor’s ‘Skills for Londoners’ strategy is an exciting…
5.00 Jun. 17th, 2018 | Opinion
…in Schedule B, with the exception of Access to HE; and Functional Skills and GCSE maths and English”, and “withdraw from all 19+ education and training subcontracting arrangements that have…
12.16 Jun. 15th, 2018 | News
The metro mayors overseeing skills budget devolution have joined forces to demand control of apprenticeship levy cash that employers fail to spend. The devolved adult education budget will come into…
11.44 Jun. 14th, 2018 | News