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WorldSkills: Driving growth with and for young people

Competing in skills competitions across the world can help drive up standards and growth at home, writes Neil Bentley-Gockmann After the delays and difficulties of the past couple of years, 35 young women and men from all four UK nations are off to take on the best of the rest of the world in the […]

Opinion, WorldSkills

Prisoner apprenticeships: The start of a new policy paradigm

The introduction of apprenticeships for prisoners is not just a landmark win for social justice, writes John Thornhill, but a model for a better way to make policy

Opinion, Apprenticeships

How to support learners with SEND into employment 

Supporting learners with needs and disabilities into employment isn’t just about getting them the job but making sure they can keep it, writes Rhona Sapsford

Opinion, SEND

This government is committed to an ambitious skills agenda

Our skills agenda is at the heart of our plans to level up the economy and we are focused on delivering the reform the sector needs, writes Andrea Jenkyns

Opinion, Conservative Party Conference

‘No, madam minister’: Street slams Jenkyns’ devo-sceptic remarks

The skills minister should be ‘spoken to’ by the chief whip for questioning adult skills devolution, according to west midlands mayor.

News, Devolution, Politics

I’m beginning to think Labour has got it at last – well almost! 

The Labour leader’s close alignment with his chancellor Rachel Reeves is also good news for FE providers if he comes to power, writes Ann Limb So Labour has promised to reform the apprenticeship levy into a “growth and skills levy”. It would be hard not to welcome a move which means money raised can be […]

Opinion

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: EDITION 400

Amy Rice Executive Director for Education and Justice, Seetec Start date: September 2022 Previous job: Chief executive officer, St Margaret Clitherow Catholic Academy Trust Interesting fact: Amy worked at the Ministry of Justice for over 10 years and has been a non executive director at Northumbria University for 8 years. Tom Roberts Assistant Principal – […]

Movers and Shakers

The dismantling of a sector: Adult education in crisis

Only two years ago, the adult education sector was called ‘the crown’ and community learning its ‘jewel’ by the education select committee. So why is a narrow offer (unless you can pay) possibly set to become even narrower? Jess Staufenberg finds out The “existential decline” of the adult education sector because of drops in funding, […]

Feature, News, Adult education, Long read

New ministers: change universal credit rules so people can skill up

People on universal credit say work coaches don’t engage properly and rules stop them from accessing training, write Trinley Walker and Olivia Gable Throughout the pandemic, the government placed a strong emphasis on the role of training and re-skilling through programmes. It has done this through Restart and JETS (Job Entry Targeted Support), which formed […]

Opinion