Skills reform

Wakefield will grow supply and demand together for high-skills jobs

Our proposed new skills centre could be the key to breaking the cycle of low skills and low pay...

Jessica Hill
Professor Chris Husbands
Adult education, Skills reform

10-year adult ed rescue plan would boost economy by £22bn, says L&W

New report calls for tripling level 2 and 3 achievements and expanded lifelong learning entitlement

Anviksha Patel
Anviksha Patel
Skills reform

Pat’s skills nightmare: The kitchen is on fire

If Gordon Ramsay walked into today’s skills sector, he would be screaming. Funding is broken, bureaucracy is bloated and...

Jessica Hill
Mark Dawe
Skills reform

Engineering’s skills crunch can be solved with our plan

From nuclear to renewables, hydrogen to carbon capture, major projects demand a workforce ready to deliver. Our five-year plan...

Jessica Hill
Andrew Hockey
Skills reform

We need the same rigour of teaching in colleges as in schools

Schools soared up the international league tables under Gove and Gibb. Colleges, by contrast, remain the poor relation. It’s...

Jessica Hill
Will Bickford Smith
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