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These articles were categorised when the skills agenda was controlled by the Department for Education & Skills, from 2001 to 2007. Subsequently the government department responsible for skills is the Department for Business Innovation & Skills (BIS).


    • Apprenticeships
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    • Education - further and higher

    Don’t rush into removing BTecs, committee urges

    by Jo Faragher 28 Apr 2023
    by Jo Faragher 28 Apr 2023

    The government must not rush into withdrawing funding from longstanding technical qualifications such as BTecs, a Commons committee has urged.

    • Education
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    • Industrial action / strikes

    Teachers strikes paused as unions begin talks with DfE

    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2023
    by Jo Faragher 17 Mar 2023

    The National Education Union and other unions have paused strike action for two weeks after talks began today (17 March) with the Department for Education.

    • Education
    • Latest News
    • Department for Education

    Ministers may extend foreign students’ working hours

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jan 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Jan 2023

    Prime minister Rishi Sunak is considering plans to allow foreign students at UK universities to work more hours as he searches for ways to increase the labour pool.

    • Brexit
    • Education
    • Economics, government & business

    Home Office graduate visa plan could deter skills

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jan 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Jan 2023

    Plans to sharply reduce UK immigration by changing graduate visa rules have been criticised by education and business figures.
    In...

    • Careers advice
    • STEM
    • Latest News

    Careers scheme launched for primary school children

    by Rob Moss 5 Jan 2023
    by Rob Moss 5 Jan 2023

    Department for Education begins careers programme for primary schools in disadvantaged areas to get children thinking about their future.

    • Education
    • Economics, government & business
    • Latest News

    Rishi Sunak plans British baccalaureate and vocational colleges

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Oct 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Oct 2022

    Proposals are likely to include the introduction of a British baccalaureate, offering broader academic and vocational qualifications at 18 and a slimmed-down set of exams at 16.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Career development

    More than £1bn of upskilling loan money has gone unspent

    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022
    by Adam McCulloch 26 May 2022

    In the past year alone, £97m of funding wasn’t spent, which would have paid for 120,000 adults to access courses helping them to reskill.

    • STEM
    • Traineeships
    • Education

    Sunak to announce £3bn skills injection at budget

    by Jo Faragher 25 Oct 2021
    by Jo Faragher 25 Oct 2021

    Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce close to £3 billion in skills funding in the budget on Wednesday (27 October).

    • Education
    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News

    MPs and former education secretaries join campaign in bid to save BTecs

    by Adam McCulloch 15 Oct 2021
    by Adam McCulloch 15 Oct 2021

    Further education leader calls T-levels a ‘hammer blow for social mobility‘

    • Apprenticeships
    • Latest News
    • Department for Education

    Flexible apprenticeships consultation launched

    by Rob Moss 20 Apr 2021
    by Rob Moss 20 Apr 2021

    The Education and Skills Funding Agency has launched a consultation on the new ‘flexible’ apprenticeship, announced in the budget, and...

    • Gender pay gap
    • Gender
    • Latest News

    Gender pay gaps rise at seven Whitehall departments – including equality

    by Adam McCulloch 17 Dec 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 17 Dec 2020

    Government departments released figures this week showing that gender pay gap has grown in seven of the 17 main Whitehall departments.

    • Coronavirus
    • Manufacturing
    • Latest News

    Lifetime Skills Guarantee: free courses launch in April 2021

    by Rob Moss 9 Dec 2020
    by Rob Moss 9 Dec 2020

    Four hundred free training courses, ranging from engineering to healthcare, will be available to adults without a qualification at A-level...

    • Police
    • NHS
    • Local authorities

    Public sector pay freeze stokes union anger

    by Adam McCulloch 26 Nov 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 26 Nov 2020

    Unison general secretary Dave Prentis describes Rishi Sunak's spending review as 'austerity, plain and simple,' as unions attack 'divisive' pay freeze.

    • Coronavirus
    • Education
    • Latest News

    Union tells teachers not to engage with school reopening plans

    by Ashleigh Webber 12 May 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 12 May 2020

    Teachers and other school staff have been told to not ‘engage’ with plans for school reopenings next month, with a...

    • Coronavirus
    • Apprenticeships
    • Education

    Apprenticeships: training providers’ body to take legal advice over support

    by Adam McCulloch 27 Apr 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 27 Apr 2020

    AELP lambasts Department for Education over failure to meet Cabinet Office obligation to support all training providers.

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