Devolution

Mayor’s money to heat up FE ‘cold spots’

Capital funding dished out to providers to target towns with a training provision ‘deficit’

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Devolution

Legislation paves way for mayors to appoint ‘skills commissioners’

But combined authority leaders urged to be cautious in drawing more funding away from frontline delivery

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
NEETs

Skills providers can help firms tap into economically inactive talent

Supporting the ‘economically inactive’ back into jobs presents an opportunity for skills providers to collaborate with businesses in developing...

Jessica Hill
Luke Muscat and Ryan Brown
The Staffroom - opinion

All aboard the cruise industry for our new wave of employer engagement

For Nescot students, employer partnerships turn classroom learning into real-world careers – and the cruise industry is the latest...

Jessica Hill
Julie Kapsalis
Skills challenge

How we’re responding to Universal’s game-changing arrival

A theme park is coming to our area, and with it, a tidal wave of 28,000 jobs. As Universal’s...

Jessica Hill
Robin Webber-Jones
Skills reform

Make post-16 an ‘integrated’ tertiary system – report

EPI calls for ‘holistic’ tertiary education system ahead of imminent post-16 white paper

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

One year in, Labour’s skills revolution is feeling hollow

Skills were meant to be at the heart of Labour’s economic revival. Yet, after a year of bureaucratic tweaks...

Jessica Hill
Tom Bewick
skills divide

The Great British skills mismatch

Britain has never been more educated, yet skills mismatches, regional divides, and graduate overqualification threaten productivity

Jessica Hill
Larissa Marioni
Skills reform

FE inquiry: MPs grill Smith on pay, cuts and careers

Parity of teacher pay is a 'fairly basic problem', the education committee chair suggested

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor