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LSIPS: a chance to change, or a chance missed?

Gillian Keegan is determined that local skills improvement plans will ease the nation’s skills crisis. Jessica Hill lifts the lid on the negotiations between the worlds of business and skills.  The LSIPs designed to address the nation’s skills shortages “have to work” and “will work”, Gillian Keegan told FE leaders in her inaugural speech to […]

Feature, News, Long read, Skills reform

Capita exits adult education citing ‘market conditions’

Major outsourcing firm also significantly reduces apprenticeship delivery

News

Let’s work together on the green industry-ready learners we all need

We need a circular economy of support to improve the quality of climate change knowledge and preparation, says Adam Read

Opinion, Green skills

The benefits of brokering NHS partnerships are innumerable. Get started now!

Top-level partnership between our college and local NHS trust have been transformative for our learners and could do the same for yours, explains Bill Webster

Opinion, Skills shortages

Two decades of skills policies haven’t improved productivity, says report

Failure to boost lower and intermediate-level skills is harming UK productivity

News, Skills reform

Private equity and training: a complicated relationship explained

The last ten years has seen a gold rush of global private equity (PE) companies seeking to make the most of the opportunities presented by the apprenticeship levy by pouring their money into England’s independent training providers. But PE owners are being hit by a double whammy of lower profit margins in the apprenticeships training […]

Feature, News, Long read, Training Providers

New Lifetime Training leadership plans more redundancies

Around 5% of the provider’s 1,000-strong workforce set to be cut

News

Keir Starmer appoints new shadow skills minister

Toby Perkins has been replaced by Seema Malhotra as shadow skills minister

News, Politics

8 key findings from DfE’s first FE workforce data release

The stats were promised in the Skills for Jobs white paper

News, Colleges, Teaching