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Profile: Lee Elliot Major

Lee Elliot Major gave up a dream job to become the UK’s first professor of social mobility. Donna Ferguson finds out why he made the move to academia – and his latest plans to improve the life chances for our poorest pupils. Lee Elliot Major recently confessed to a group of headteachers that he’d just walked […]

Profiles

Gillian Keegan becomes fifth education secretary in four months

The former skills minister replaces Kit Malthouse

News

DfE’s top skills civil servant leaving post in December

Paul Kett has served in several roles at the department over six years, rising to the senior rank of director general in 2017

News

Top DfE civil servants grilled on skills reforms: 6 things we learned

Officials say they are ‘pretty confident’ employer-led system is right direction of travel…

News

Is now the time to ‘waste money’ on prisoner apprenticeships?

As the new chancellor looks to the public sector for a renewed round of efficiencies and cuts, Sally Alexander makes the economic case for prisoner education

Opinion, Apprenticeships

Training provider and college reps announce ‘strategic coalition’

‘Disparate’ organisations AELP, AoC and City & Guilds are joining forces

News, Colleges, Training Providers

A silencing sector? Non-disclosure agreements and media policies in FE

Everyone gets why non-disclosure agreements and strict media engagement rules are used in colleges. But concerns are growing that a tight-lipped approach is detrimental to the sector. Jess Staufenberg reports Non-disclosure agreements and confusing freedom of speech policies are silencing college staff with potentially valid insights and criticism of the sector, FE Week can reveal.   […]

Feature, News

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 402

Ellie Churchward Head of Lifelong Learning and Skills, Sheffield City Council Start date: September 2022 Previous job: Service Manager – Adult Community Education, Sheffield City Council Interesting fact: Ellie started out as a soldier in the Royal Signals and still loves outdoor life. You’ll often find her on a campsite, but these days in more […]

Movers and Shakers

We can’t level up by blocking young people’s progress

Restrictions on apprenticeship course requirements are so inconsistent they’re blocking an entire generation of potential workers from levelling up, writes Joe Crossley

Opinion, Levelling Up