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Education must adapt to deliver the key employment skills of a changing workplace

A new NFER report suggests it’s time to revisit the national curriculum to embed six employment skills that will power the future economy, explains Luke Bocock

Opinion, Curriculum

Another 92 courses face the chop to make way for T Levels

Halfon reveals the latest round of qualifications facing the chop to make way for T Levels, including popular engineering BTECs

News, Politics, T Levels

DfE launches £165m local skills improvement fund

Pot available for initiatives that ‘respond to specific priorities’ identified in LSIPs

News, Skills reform

Careers guidance is not only for young people – adults benefit too

A new economic reality requires a new approach to careers guidance – and it must be one that includes adults, writes Sally-Anne Barnes

Opinion, Careers

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 426

Philippa Pickford Director of Regulation, Office for Students Start date: July 2023 Previous Job: Director, Delivery and Schemes, Ofgem Interesting fact: Philippa enjoys walking in the countryside with her family. A trip up Scafell Pike last summer completed a family challenge of scaling the three peaks (although the challenge was completed over a six-year timescale!) […]

Movers and Shakers

The success of London Multiply demonstrates the importance of adopting a local approach

London’s success in delivering numeracy programmes shows we need more local decision-making to upskill and reskill workers, writes Jules Pipe

Opinion, AEB

Manchester mayor’s ‘MBacc’ to rival EBacc to boost technical education

It’s not yet clear why schools would promote the MBacc technical education options over the EBacc

News, Devolution, Qualifications, T Levels

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 425

Michelle Dowse Principal & CEO, Heart of Worcestershire College Start date: April 2023 Previous job: Deputy Principal, Cambridge Regional College Interesting fact: Michelle is a former national sailing champion whose love of the water and exploring new places is well-documented in her travel blog. When she’s not off exploring, Michelle enjoys spending time relaxing with […]

Movers and Shakers

Chris Claydon, CEO, JTL

Chris Claydon has a biography better suited to James Bond than to the chief executive of a training provider for building service engineers. He has flown Apache military helicopters, briefed cabinet ministers on evacuations from the Arab Spring uprisings, and helped save lives by designing countermeasures to the roadside bombs used in Afghanistan. Oh, and […]

Profiles, Apprenticeships, Long read, net zero, Skills reform