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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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...
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It can’t have escaped anyone’s notice that us Londoners get twitchy when we hear talk of levelling up. That’s because we know that this agenda…
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Today (21 Oct) the government’s Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, second day of report stage is being debated in the House of Lords. This Bill…
Ufi VocTech Trust launched their VocTech Challenge White Paper in April, at the EdTech Summit, with a £2m commitment for grant funding, best practice sharing and sector partnerships to…
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Future of Assessment: Adapting assessment – this year and beyond Hosted by Gavin O’Meara and Zac Aldridge (Director of Qualifications and Assessments, NCFE), we invited…
Just this September, Labour MP Dianne Abbott and activist Lord Simon Woolley wrote a detailed letter to the former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson. In this,…
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