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Colleges must help shape devolution, not simply adapt to it

5d | Skills reform
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Don’t let the pursuit of rigour undermine vocational reform

5d | Skills reform

What we learned from Powell’s first education committee hearing

6d | Skills reform

Colleges, don’t wait for all the answers on qualification reform

2w | Colleges
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The overlooked question in the NEETs debate: Who will hire them?

2w | Skills reform
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Procurement could be government’s secret weapon on NEETs
24 Sep 2026 | Skills reform
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We’re losing the Saturday job and gaining a bigger problem
24 Sep 2026 | Skills reform

The chancellor must raise apprenticeship funding bands
24 Sep 2026 | Skills reform

The AI jobs debate is missing the skilled trades
24 Sep 2026 | Skills reform

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Growth sectors need skills. Employer investment’s heading the wrong way

23 Sep 2026 | Skills reform

Mayors’ 16-19 budgets won’t cover apprentices

18 Sep 2026 | Apprenticeships

Computing courses live on despite V Level overlap

17 Sep 2026 | Skills reform

We’ll listen to FE so V Levels work for everyone

17 Sep 2026 | Skills reform

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Councils SEND further education to the back of the queue

10 Sep 2026 | Inclusion
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How I helped shape Reform’s plan to get England taking on apprentices

10 Sep 2026 | Skills reform
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For technical education to succeed, creativity can’t be an afterthought
27 Aug 2026 | Skills reform
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Australia, Canada, and a lesson for England’s 14-16 routes
27 Aug 2026 | Skills reform

Skills weighting doubled for major public contracts
5 Aug 2026 | Apprenticeships

We need to stop selling courses and start building skills ecosystems
4 Aug 2026 | Skills reform

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DWP revisits unloved 30/70 apprenticeship unit payment split

23 Jun 2026 | Apprenticeships

‘Not the end of the road’ for apprenticeship funding restrictions, Smith suggests

23 Jun 2026 | Apprenticeships

Apprenticeship funding band review ordered by skills minister

22 Jun 2026 | Apprenticeships
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The UK has a commercialisation problem, not just a skills problem

11 Jun 2026 | Skills reform
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The solutions to the NEET crisis will not be neat

9 Jun 2026 | Skills reform
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