Skills reform

FE to get ‘extra £800m’ next year as Starmer ‘scraps’ 50% uni target

PM replaces Blair’s mantra with a new goal that includes FE and apprenticeships and teases post-16 white paper plans

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

McFadden: Youth guarantee will have ‘more opportunity’ than the YTS

Work and pensions secretary pledges to make the new policy ‘more attractive’ than the previous youth training scheme

Billy Camden
Billy Camden
Skills reform

Labour conference 2025: Pat McFadden’s full speech

The work and pensions secretary, who now controls most of the skills brief, addressed the party's annual conference in...

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
Long read, Skills reform

Tom Bewick, author of Skills Policy in Britain and the Future of Work

If history often rhymes, as Mark Twain once said, then Tom Bewick’s book, Skills Policy in England and the...

Jessica Hill
Jessica Hill
Skills reform

No one left offline: Education must power NHS digital reform

The government’s 10-Year Health Plan promises a bold leap into AI-driven, community-led healthcare. But without a coordinated education strategy,...

Jessica Hill
Joe Neame
Adult education, Apprenticeships, Colleges, SEND, Skills reform, T Levels

FE ‘engine’ running on fumes as MPs call for funding and pay reforms

Education committee makes 40+ wide-ranging recommendations concluding its future of FE inquiry

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

NEETs top McFadden’s DWP skills agenda

The work and pensions secretary wants jobcentres to offer training as a 'springboard to better futures'

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor
SEND, Skills reform

MPs demand funding and transport guarantees for FE SEND students

Post-16 SEND students are ‘rarely prioritised’ says education committee

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

Confirmed: Skills England moved to DWP from today

Skills England CEO says move "really makes sense"

Josh Mellor
Josh Mellor