As reported last week, the new Skills Minister Anne Milton is seen as a fixer, brought in to sort out the stumbling apprenticeship reforms.
And this week we have revealed how DfE plans for T-Levels appear in trouble, so its little wonder Ms Milton (who is also responsible for them) has already spent so much time with her civil servants.
Where the former minister Robert Halfon was keen to be out on the road visiting colleges, so far she has only toured one provider (Carshalton College) after 18 days in the job.
We understand Ms Milton is knee-deep in paperwork and civil servant briefings, rapidly getting up to speed on policy developments.
This bodes well for quick decision making, something the sector has sorely missed since Theresa May’s administration first took office a year ago.
It is clearly too early to judge if they will be good decisions, but decisiveness and clarity is badly needed.
And I don’t think if apprenticeship and T-Level reform gets back on track, Ms Milton will have it easy.
Does anyone have the faintest idea how to implement devolution of the adult education budget from next year?
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