industrial strategy

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

Questions remain over industrial strategy skills pledge

Skills are mentioned 140 times in the industrial strategy – proof of their pivotal role in UK competitiveness. But as FE leaders digest the details, the challenge now is turning rhetoric into real-world impact

Skills excellence is the missing ingredient in the UK’s industrial strategy

Skills excellence – not just skills – will drive the UK’s economic future, so don’t overlook it

Power crisis: the UK’s infrastructure boom could stall before it starts

The government wants to build more homes, greener energy, and major infrastructure – but a fast-declining electrical workforce could leave these plans in the dark

The real test for Great British Energy’s mission is skills

Great British Energy is here but its success, and that of the UK in hitting clean energy targets, depend on the redeployment of existing energy staff

Industrial strategy fails without extra electricians and plumbers

Independent training providers need equal access to state funding and support to boost qualified employee numbers

Industrial strategy: what’s missing is what matters

Given the challenges the UK’s society and economy now faces, the industrial strategy is a rather small, faltering step, according to Professor Ewart Keep The industrial strategy, launched on a day when the UK media was obsessing about the engagement of the man fifth in line to the throne, did not appear trailing clouds of […]

£10m adult flexible learning fund launches

Up to £10 million is now available to help providers develop new ways of supporting adults to progress or retrain, the Department for Education has announced. The flexible learning fund, launched today, is part of a £40 million package piloting new approaches to lifelong learning that were announced in this year’s spring budget. The pilot […]

Institutes of technology £170m windfall going to existing providers

The extra £170 million the government has promised to set aside for a new wave of “prestigious” institutes of technology will go to existing providers, FE Week can reveal. The title will in effect work as a badge of honour given to specially chosen FE providers that excel at higher-level technical education, like the old […]