skills | FE Week

LSIPS: a chance to change, or a chance missed?

Gillian Keegan is determined that local skills improvement plans will ease the nation’s skills crisis. Jessica Hill lifts the lid on the negotiations between the worlds of business and skills. The LSIPs designed to address the nation’s skills shortages “have to work” and “will work”, Gillian Keegan told FE leaders in her inaugural speech to […]

Government confirms end to LEP funding

The government had touted the change in this year’s Spring Budget

Skills and training: the centrepiece of Brabin’s northern project

The mayor claims to have used her adult education budget to target areas where change was needed most, but is keenly eyeing more powers to make a difference

Neil Bentley-Gockmann, WorldSkills UK

Neil Bentley-Gockmann is extremely proud of pivoting the focus of WorldSkills UK’s from one big showstopping annual competition event to loftier ambitions around “tackling vocational snobbery”. But he still misses the buzz the big national skills competition final used to give him in the pre-pandemic years. Bentley-Gockmann, who is stepping down as chief executive at […]

SkillBuild 2023 – why you should enter your learners as huge demand for construction skills remain

The largest and longest-running construction skills competition in the UK returns, with registration now open for SkillBuild 2023.. The SkillBuild competition is delivered by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and offers an opportunity for talented apprentices and learners of all ages to compete regionally against one another in various trade categories. Prospective competitors can […]

Team UK jet off for special WorldSkills competition

61 finals take place in 15 countries with more than 1,000 competitors over the next two months

Roundtable Discussion | Learner needs should be equal to employer needs to truly level up

Watch the latest FE Week roundtable discussion, in partnership with NCFE

Encourage a winning mindset through our free competition-development programme

A first-time opportunity for educators and students to benefit from WorldSkills UK’s unique skills competition assessment modules based on over 65 years of experience and the very latest insights from our training managers and experts plus international benchmarking exercises which promote adoption of global standards.

Make 2022 the year FE is unchained at last

FE is the best place for adults to upskill – but it needs lobbyists in parliament, writes Andy Forbes This year, the FE sector has a real chance of moving centre stage. Why this year, you ask, after so many frustrating years of flatline funding and piecemeal initiatives? It’s a combination of things. Three things […]