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
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
Skills reform

Wakefield will grow supply and demand together for high-skills jobs

Our proposed new skills centre could be the key to breaking the cycle of low skills and low pay...

Jessica Hill
Professor Chris Husbands
Higher education

DfE removes funding to develop HTQ courses

The fund aimed to boost uptake of higher level technical qualifications

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Politics

Skills policy just moved house, and the neighbourhood matters

Every department brings its own instincts. In the DWP, skills will be filtered through a jobs lens. That could...

Jessica Hill
Alex Morris
Skills reform

Pat’s skills nightmare: The kitchen is on fire

If Gordon Ramsay walked into today’s skills sector, he would be screaming. Funding is broken, bureaucracy is bloated and...

Jessica Hill
Mark Dawe
Skills reform

Engineering’s skills crunch can be solved with our plan

From nuclear to renewables, hydrogen to carbon capture, major projects demand a workforce ready to deliver. Our five-year plan...

Jessica Hill
Andrew Hockey
Skills reform

We need the same rigour of teaching in colleges as in schools

Schools soared up the international league tables under Gove and Gibb. Colleges, by contrast, remain the poor relation. It’s...

Jessica Hill
Will Bickford Smith