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Skills bill clears the commons

The bill passed its remaining stages last night

News, Skills reform

Two significant skills bill amendments need to be backed by government

Report stage gets underway in the Commons on Monday

Opinion, Politics, Skills reform

Jeff Greenidge, director for diversity, AoC

Jeff Greenidge tells Jess Staufenberg why encouraging non-racists to be more vocal about their opposition to racism is the crucial next step for the sector Just over a year ago, the first ever “director for diversity” was appointed by the Association of Colleges and the Education and Training Foundation – Jeff Greenidge. The former languages […]

Profiles, Inclusion

Sustainability is now the ‘fourth functional skill’

Students at AELP’s first-ever green skills summit say sustainability should be learnt alongside English, maths and digital, writes Nichola Hay Last week AELP held its first-ever green skills summit. The event, sponsored by the Skills Network, was a success. But it also showed there’s still much work FE can do to help reach net zero […]

Opinion, Climate Change

World-class skills will level up local communities

For the UK to attract the investment that will level up communities, we need world-class skills, writes Neil Bentley-Gockmann. Introducing the long-awaited Levelling Up White Paper, Michael Gove listed some of the United Kingdom’s successes. He talked up the size and strength of the economy, the dominance of the English language around the world and […]

Opinion, Levelling Up

Revealed: Organisations named the first flexi-job apprenticeship agencies

Apprentices will be employed by these organisations, but will have multiple employment placements over their apprenticeship.

News, Apprenticeships

Levelling up Access to Further Education Whitepaper

Colleges are searching for the alchemy to transform great face-to-face teaching into a powerful virtual course that meets the growing demand for digital skills. Have they now found a solution where technology and pedagogy are one?

News, Sponsored post, Sponsored post

Focus on adult education is promising – but lacks ambition

It is also surprising the levelling up white paper has so little to say on green skills, write Aveek Bhattacharya and Amy Norman For those of us who have been following the government’s skills and post-18 education policy, the levelling up white paper was very familiar. We knew many of the key announcements already: local […]

Opinion

Elite sixth forms: is there room for optimism?

Let’s have ‘elite sixth forms’ for hospitality, catering, caring and so on, writes Ben Gadsby My New Year’s resolution was to be more optimistic. New Year’s resolutions are always harder to keep in February, and it’s not helped by this week’s announcement of “specialist sixth-form free schools”. According to the government, these are “to ensure […]

Opinion, Levelling Up