Skills reform

1-week apprenticeship ‘units’, and 5 other things we learned from Smith’s white paper briefing

Skills minister also defends adult education plans and explains the need to introduce laws that ban ‘unsuitable' FE leaders

Billy Camden
Billy Camden and Josh Mellor
skills

Government reveals skills strategy for clean energy sector in first ‘jobs plan’

Demand for skilled workers is forecast to double in the next five years

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills reform

We’ll end qualification confusion and build confidence in FE

For too long, young people have faced a maze of qualifications with no clear direction. Our new V Levels...

Jessica Hill
Jacqui Smith
Skills reform

Jobs plans put onus on employers to hire within UK

'Expert' civil servants will lead on workforce skill strategies in a bid to lower immigration levels

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Long read, Training Providers

Her PET project

For 30 years Fleur Sexton has led training provider PET-Xi, with its staff of largely neurodiverse leaders and can-do...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Skills reform

We saved a social care workforce pathway cut off by level 3 reforms

Around 31,000 learners were potentially left without a route into social care, but NCFE’s intervention could be the lifeline...

Jessica Hill
David Rowley
Skills reform

A guarantee isn’t enough… our youth deserve a work promise

Without a permanent, connected strategy linking education, skills and work, we’ll keep treating the symptoms of youth unemployment, and...

Jessica Hill
Laura-Jane Rawlings
Skills reform

Trainee mechanics must be tooled up or the EV revolution falls flat 

Colleges must provide electric vehicle-specific training and tooling to avoid students attempting dangerous bodges in the real world

Jessica Hill
David Martin
Colleges, Skills reform

Skills England urged to confront government on FE funding

Joint AoC and UUK report also calls for 'excessive' competition to be challenged

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor