Adult education, Training Providers

Mayors dump adult education cuts on independent training providers

Up to two-thirds axed from devolved procured budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

Providers need a better roadmap as more areas enter devolution

Devolution is creating a complex maze that ITPs can sometimes get lost in

Jessica Hill
Jacqueline Oughton
Adult education, Young people

Mayors reboot Kickstart scheme for employment score

With nearly a million young people now classed as not in education, employment or training, mayors are revamping a...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Young people

Mayor launches £100 per week payments for net zero students

One principal said the scheme has create 'quite the buzz'

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Adult education

Skills devolution spreads with plan for six new regions

Millions in skills funding will be handed to mayors, with ringfences lifted on budgets

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Apprenticeships serve the public – so devolve them

Whitehall holds too much power and big employers have learned to game the levy

Jessica Hill
Baroness Alison Wolf
Adult education

Boris’s rushed retraining scheme created huge underspend 

Most of the money has been quietly returned to the Treasury

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Apprenticeships

Wolf’s apprenticeship proposals would be a devolution howler

Employers are best placed to lead training needs – and Baroness Alison Wolf’s idea of devolving funding to local...

Jessica Hill
Ben Rowland
Adult education

Mayors better at spending adult skills cash

Devolved AEB underspend figures revealed for first time

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor