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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).


    • Minimum service levels
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    Education minimum service levels consultation published

    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Nov 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Nov 2023

    The Department for Education has launched a consultation outlining how it will implement minimum service levels in schools and colleges during strike action.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    Fall in apprenticeship starts ‘should trigger change’

    by Adam McCulloch 13 Oct 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 13 Oct 2023

    Latest figures on apprenticeship starts show decline in uptake among young people.

    • Department for Education
    • Latest News
    • Education

    Teacher recruitment plans like ‘filling bath without a plug’

    by Rob Moss 10 Oct 2023
    by Rob Moss 10 Oct 2023

    School leaders union NAHT says government plans for teacher recruitment in 2023-24 fail to acknowledge the scale of retention problems.

    • Department for Education
    • Latest News
    • Education - further and higher

    T-level shortcomings need addressing, says Ofsted

    by Rob Moss 21 Jul 2023
    by Rob Moss 21 Jul 2023

    Shortcomings for T-level qualifications included poor industry placements and high drop-out rates, according to the education watchdog.

    • Apprenticeships
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    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.

    • Department for Education
    • Latest News
    • Education

    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.

    • Department for Education
    • Latest News
    • 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
    • Department for Education
    • Latest News

    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...

    • STEM
    • Careers advice
    • Department for Education

    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
    • Department for Education
    • 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
    • Career development
    • Department for Education

    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
    • Apprenticeships
    • Career development

    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).

    • Apprenticeships
    • Department for Education
    • 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
    • Early careers
    • 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
    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
    • Department for Education

    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.

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