#GE2024: Listen now as Let’s Go Further outlines the FE and skills priorities facing our new government The Skills and Education Group podcast, Let’s Go Further, aims to challenge the way we all think about skills and education. Series 4, a collaboration with FE Week, focuses on the FE and skills policy issues facing a new government.
Let’s have an education and skills commission to advise government The skills system is crying out for a comprehensive long-term strategy led by experts, writes Sir John Armitt In the past 30 years, there have been over 70 ministers responsible for skills policy – all believing their personal success is measured by what they can alter. Most of them have been well intentioned, but these […]
‘Civil servants spend too much time in a room with other civil servants’ After four years in the job, Jonathan Slater was unceremoniously sacked as permanent secretary of the Department for Education. Now he’s calling for better accountability within the civil service Jonathan Slater, former permanent secretary at the Department for Education, is on the phone to one of his daughters. He and his family have just moved […]
Minister admits a lot ‘we don’t know yet’ about Treasury backed national retraining scheme The government still doesn’t know how the national retraining scheme will work or how much it will cost, even though the programme is expected to be rolled out from the summer. Despite the scheme being mooted in June 2017 and the Department for Education being pushed to share more information about it three months ago, […]