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).
Latest figures on apprenticeship starts show decline in uptake among young people.
School leaders union NAHT says government plans for teacher recruitment in 2023-24 fail to acknowledge the scale of retention problems.
Shortcomings for T-level qualifications included poor industry placements and high drop-out rates, according to the education watchdog.
The government must not rush into withdrawing funding from longstanding technical qualifications such as BTecs, a Commons committee has urged.
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.
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.
Plans to sharply reduce UK immigration by changing graduate visa rules have been criticised by education and business figures.
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Department for Education begins careers programme for primary schools in disadvantaged areas to get children thinking about their future.
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.
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.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce close to £3 billion in skills funding in the budget on Wednesday (27 October).
Further education leader calls T-levels a ‘hammer blow for social mobility‘
The Education and Skills Funding Agency has launched a consultation on the new ‘flexible’ apprenticeship, announced in the budget, and...
Government departments released figures this week showing that gender pay gap has grown in seven of the 17 main Whitehall departments.
Four hundred free training courses, ranging from engineering to healthcare, will be available to adults without a qualification at A-level...
