FE News chat with Steve Mariadas, Chief Executive Officer of the South West Institute of Technology. Steve discusses the now and the future plans for the whole South West region of the IoT, from meeting learner needs, to driving the direction on the future of Nuclear, Data and Marine technology skills development through to delivering higher level technical skills to meet employers skills and job requirements.

Jeremy Corbyn plans to create 80,000 'Climate Apprenticeships' per year if Labour are elected on 12th December. During his speech at the CBI conference Labour to create 80,000 'Climate Apprenticeships' per year if elected. Labour have highlighted that the global 'Green economy' is valued at £4 Trillion in 2019, but is expected to grow to £9 Trillion in 2030 and that the 'Climate Apprenticeship' programme will be used to develop sustainable engineering skills, but with a diversion from the Apprenticeship Levy to fund this.

FE News chat with Marie-Claire O'Brien, from New Leaf Initiative to discuss 'hard to reach' learners and how to get involved in offender learning at the #SETConf2019.

FE News chat with David Didau @DavidDidau about 'Analogue Learning' at the Society for Education and Training annual conference.

FE News chat with Vikki Liogier, the Education and Training Foundation (ETF) Head of Learning Technologies and Angela Sanders who is an Associate Consultant at ETF about Digital Skills, particularly Essential Digital Skills for CPD.