Skills reform

Sadiq Khan slams mayoral exclusion from local skills improvement plan pilots

Sadiq Khan has slammed the government for cutting mayoral authorities out from leading new local skills improvement plan (LSIPs)...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Hunt begins for ‘employer representative bodies’ to pilot local skills improvement plans

Employer representative bodies are being asked by government to step forward and lead pilots for new local skills improvement...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Colleges invited to bid for £65m Strategic Development Fund pilot – but must collaborate

A new fund that aims to force college collaboration has opened for bids today. Colleges can now tender to...

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Billy Camden
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Government consults on replacing ATAs with new ‘flexi-job’ apprenticeship scheme

The government has announced plans to withdraw its register of apprenticeship training agencies (ATAs) and replace it with a...

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Billy Camden
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£36m bootcamp results delayed

The results of the government’s national skills bootcamp tender have been hit by a “very worrying” delay. Contracts were...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
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WorldSkills UK LIVE cancelled again – but national skills competitions return

The country’s biggest skills and careers event has been cancelled for a second year – but national skills competitions...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Apprenticeships

Call for new ‘baccalaureate’ to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships

A three-year ‘baccalaureate’ should be introduced to replace A-levels, BTECs, T-Levels and apprenticeships, a think tank has said. A...

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Billy Camden
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Colleges take adult education clawback battle to Downing Street

Colleges have called on the prime minister to intervene in the government’s “devastating” adult education clawback plans that risk...

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Billy Camden
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Prison education: Three days of strikes announced

Education staff at 49 prisons across England will go on three days of strike action in the coming weeks...

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Billy Camden