Online learning flattens barriers in the age of devolution From coastal towns to busy parents, not everyone can ride a motorbike to a training centre like I can. As power shifts to regions, online education must be part of the plan—or risk deepening inequality
Combined authority pauses adult skills contracts after legal challenge Delivery is supposed to start next month
It’s wrong that nobody knows if the adult skills fund actually works Unlike apprenticeships, adult skills funding operates in a data black hole. Should the grant-allocated system in adult education be phased out?
Devolving 16-19 funding would be a nightmayor, minister warned Doing so would lead to more ‘bureaucracy’ and ‘inequalities’, expert says
‘Potential’ for more skills devolution amid mayoral ‘tension’, says minister Comes weeks after mayor Andy Burnham labelled the DfE as his ‘biggest frustration’
Mayors spending on youth to Get Britain Working Some areas are investing in better systems to track whether young people stay in work or training as they become adults
DfE sorry for councils’ adult skills powers confusion Training will be commissioned by local councils instead of ITPs on the national contract
From competition to coordination: Blueprint for a smarter skills system Westminster ‘hoards power’—but will its devolution plans fix the system? Our AoC-backed report lays out 19 urgent reforms