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
Sponsored post

Supporting the UK’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan Through Skills

The UK Government’s Decarbonising Transport: A Better, Greener Britain strategy sets a legally binding path towards a net-zero transport...

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Sabre Rigs
Devolution

Khan puts business bosses in skills driving seat

The mayor wants employers with skills gaps to help commission skills programmes in the capital

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Long read, Skills reform

Tom Bewick, author of Skills Policy in Britain and the Future of Work

If history often rhymes, as Mark Twain once said, then Tom Bewick’s book, Skills Policy in England and the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill