Skills reform

Skills England’s new expert network will cut red tape, not corners

Reforms can be delivered at pace without compromising quality if employer insight is used effectively and proportionately, says Gemma...

Shane Chowen
Gemma Marsh
Skills reform

Britain’s growth plan will fail without level 4 and 5 skills

If the industrial strategy is serious about advanced manufacturing, it must finally fix the “missing middle” in our skills...

Jessica Hill
Jamie Cater
Skills reform

Reclaiming apprenticeships for the next generation

Apprenticeships were designed to give young people their first step into skilled work. After a decade of declining youth...

Jessica Hill
Praful Nargund
Adult education, Apprenticeships, Skills reform

Apprenticeships purge: Team leader and chartered manager among 16 axed standards

Ministers also unveil the first 7 apprenticeship units

Shane Chowen
Shane Chowen
Skills reform

The cracks are in the delivery system, not the qualifications

If ministers want to stop young people 'falling through the cracks', they must confront the real problem: a school...

Jessica Hill
Andy Forbes
Skills reform

Building and engineering boards in merger consultation

Details of the proposal are due to be published next month

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills reform

Britain’s clean energy plans are racing ahead, its skills system is miles behind

Billions are being invested in offshore wind, hydrogen and nuclear, but without a national clean energy skills ecosystem the...

Jessica Hill
Members of the National Energy Skills Consortium (NESC)
Skills reform, Teaching
Exclusive

AI Skills Hub risks ‘copy and paste of past failure’

New AI skills hub initiative reeks of pandemic-era 'skills toolkits' failures

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

We’re not thinking big enough on construction training reform

We should consider structural changes, such as the 14-19 model used in Europe, but yet again we’re just tinkering...

Jessica Hill
Graham Hasting-Evans