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)
AI, Skills reform
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
Long read, Skills reform
Long read

Mapping the skills debate across the opposition benches

Thirty years after ‘education, education, education’: Where are we now? A look at how today’s parties are positioning themselves on...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Skills reform

For Skills England to succeed, the sector must lead

Skills England is already on borrowed time, because no quango survives the churn of Westminster. If the sector wants...

Jessica Hill
Mark Dawe
Skills reform

Fewer share prosperity when UKSPF ends in March

Funding will be focused on mayors in the north, midlands and the most deprived communities

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills reform

Eton gets go-ahead to develop 2 of 3 elite sixth forms

UTC among 28 of 44 free school proposals canned by DfE

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Skills England launches beta version of skills classification tool

Skills classification tool to be fully rolled out next year

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Qualifications, Skills reform

Officials hesitate over V Level licence model

DfE is also seeking views on whether the new qualification should be ‘small’ or ‘medium’ sized

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Skills reform

We need to build a more inclusive future for the trades

If the UK wants the trades to survive, it must finally confront the diversity crisis holding the sector back

Jessica Hill
Clair Bradley