Skills reform

Skills England launches beta version of skills classification tool

Skills classification tool to be fully rolled out next year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

We need to build a more inclusive future for the trades

If the UK wants the trades to survive, it must finally confront the diversity crisis holding the sector back

Jessica Hill
Clair Bradley
Skills reform

It’s mayday for the skills sector under DWP

The DWP’s inability to correct the disaster that has been the dynamic purchasing system for Jobcentres suggests the department...

Jessica Hill
John McDonough
Skills reform

Our jobs market is changing faster than anyone expected – our skills system isn’t

Our analysis shows millions of roles could vanish far earlier than predicted. Unless the UK builds a cradle-to-grave skills...

Jessica Hill
Jude Hillary
Skills reform

The skills system is broken because we keep fixing it in pieces

Employers aren’t walking away from training – they’re being driven off by complexity, cost and constant reform

Jessica Hill
Lindsay Conroy
Skills reform

LSIPs 2.0: Colleges and universities told to pool intelligence

New guidance builds on white paper pledge for ‘more coherent’ post-16 pathways

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

Fake cards, real risks: building sites need digital skills passports

We shouldn’t be relying on plastic CSCS cards to stop corruption and ensure safety when a secure digital alternative...

Jessica Hill
Paul Devlin
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