Skills reform

Revealed: Complex allocations for the ‘targeted level 3 adult offer’

Just over £118 million has been set aside to pay for the new “targeted level 3 adult offer” across...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

FE white paper: Employer casts doubt on chambers of commerce leading role

Chambers of commerce are “not close enough to industry” to play a leading role in the skills system as...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Skills reform

Intervention regime WILL include college failure to comply with local skills improvement plans

New legislation will enable the education secretary to intervene where colleges refuse to deliver courses decided through local skills...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Speed and scope are now crucial for the skills white paper

There’s much that’s encouraging in the skills white paper – but we can’t wait another decade for the reforms...

Jess Staufenberg
Graham Hasting-Evans
Skills reform

Combined and local authorities must have a role in the government’s skills plan

The skills white paper must create a coherent system but local authorities are needed to provide the links and...

Jess Staufenberg
Ruth Lupton and Stephanie Thomson
Skills reform

Williamson ‘strongly encourages’ colleges to embrace lifetime skills guarantee level 3 offer

The education secretary has urged colleges to embrace the new level 3 offer under the lifetime skills guarantee as...

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

FE recruitment drive ‘pipedream’ without pay rises

Government aspirations to bolster the FE workforce “will be nothing more than a pipedream” unless colleges are given funding...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Skills reform

DfE expanding FE teacher recruitment programme with £3m tender

Suppliers are being sought to bring as many as 4,000 teachers into the further education sector by 2025, as...

Fraser Whieldon
Fraser Whieldon
Skills reform

Now is FE’s chance to deliver higher technical education

The FE white paper gives colleges the chance to become high-level providers of technical education as in other countries,...

Jess Staufenberg
Ewart Keep