Andy Burnham's call to put technical education at the heart of the national conversation is a welcome one. His proposal to expand technical pathways and...
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Andy Burnham means business. Two weeks into the job, the new Prime Minister has promised to end rough sleeping, fix social care, cap energy bills...
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Employers understand the need for skills. They experience recruitment pressures, changing technology and gaps in workforce capability directly. What many understand less clearly, is how...
The Breaking Barriers report is absolutely right to focus on building more bridges into work for young people and moving the debate away from cliff...
On Tuesday last week, the Prime Minister announced plans to put technical education on an equal footing with academic study. There was more focus on...
In the first three months of 2026, the number of young people in the UK who were not in education, employment or training (NEETs) passed...
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#NationalApprenticeshipWeek – We should celebrate England’s apprentices. But it’s also time to call out policymakers for their many failings since the decade-old Richard Review, argues…
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#WomenInSTEM – Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science today, 11th February, we feature Katerina Fotoglou and look at the path which led…
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