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How the education select committee looks now

The parliamentary education committee has welcomed five new members in the past year after several MPs stood down or took frontbench jobs. The current committee looks very different to the one formed in early 2020 following the last general election. The political make-up of select committees is determined by representation in the Commons, with parties […]

News, Politics

Local skills improvement plans: What the trailblazer reports look like

Spanning over 500 pages in total, the “trailblazer” local skills improvement plans – a key plank of the government’s “employers-first” skills reforms – have been published. Shane Chowen takes a look to see if they live up to the hype. The pros and cons of an “employers-first” skills policy have filled column inches in FE Week since […]

News, Opinion, Skills reform

SMEs lack incentive to invest in green skills

Not much is in place to encourage smaller construction businesses to go green, write Andrea Laczik and Kat Emms This week, the Department for Education published its sustainability and climate change strategy. It includes pledges such as all FE staff integrating sustainability into their teaching, and new capital projects being evaluated on whether they are […]

Opinion, Climate Change

Lia Nici, prime minister’s parliamentary private secretary

Lia Nici is the first ever FE teacher to be the prime minister’s ‘eyes and ears’ in Westminster – his parliamentary private secretary. She tells Jess Staufenberg why complaining about the system is not the answer Lia Nici is waving at me from the other end of Portcullis House. There’s a relaxed Thursday afternoon feel […]

Profiles

DfE climate change strategy: New FE teachers will be required to build sustainability into their teaching

Existing college staff will however not be required to include sustainability into their teaching

News, Climate Change

NUS is ‘systemically anti-Semitic’, and 3 other things Zahawi said at education committee

The education secretary gave evidence to MPs this morning

News

Pearson BTEC and MOBIE help learners meet the sustainability challenge in construction

In this digital age, our learners are getting to grips with the new technologies driving the future of Net Zero Construction.

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

First local skills improvement plans published

The plans are a key FE reform as outlined in the skills for jobs white paper

News, Skills reform

Revealed: Local area funding allocations for Multiply adult maths scheme

£270m is being dished out to mayoral combined authorities and local councils in England

News, Adult education