The 2026-27 Apprenticeship Funding Rules: What’s Changed and What It Means
Every year, apprenticeship providers brace themselves for a new set of funding rules. The annual ritual is familiar: download the document, highlight the changes, update…
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Why the UK’s Skills Agenda now Rests on Employer-Provider Collaboration
2025 marked a turning point for UK skills policy. With the publication of the Industrial Strategy and Skills England’s report, a bolder national vision came…
Apprenticeship Assessment Reform: Risks, Opportunities and the Year Ahead
If 2025 was a year of reform announcements for the FE and skills system – and it was, from V-levels to professional development to new ways of funding…
Navigating policy into practice: What AELP’s Apprenticeship Assessment Summit tells us about the year ahead
Held in Birmingham last week, the AELP Apprenticeship Assessment Summit took place as apprenticeship assessment reform moves out of policy design and towards the point…
What Difference Could Moving Skills to DWP Make?
The recent move of skills policy for England to DWP means things will be different for Jacqui Smith, she now has offices in two Departments.…
T Level placement helps Leeds City College student land DWP Digital apprenticeship
Leeds City College student Vedant Shukla is celebrating securing a software engineering apprenticeship after excelling on his T Level work placement. Vedant was one of…
Skills and Growth: What the Recent Government Changes Could Mean for Employer Engagement
The recent machinery of government changes have shifted responsibility for skills from the Department for Education (DfE) to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP),…
Pat McFadden Is The New Secretary of State for Work and Pensions. Is The Skills Brief Moving from DfE into DWP?
Pat McFadden is the new Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, following the Cabinet Reshuffle after Angela Rayner stepped down from the Deputy PM…
CIMSPA Joins DWP’s Sport and Physical Activity Employability Academy Pilot
A new initiative between the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the professional body for the sport and physical activity sector will help jobseekers…
CIMSPA and DWP collaborate to support jobseekers to build a great career in the sport and physical activity sector
The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA) are collaborating with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to help more…