Category: Skills England
Cutting management apprenticeships would set young people up to fail at work
There is a growing sense, shared quietly by employers, universities and apprentices themselves, that something valuable is starting to slip […]
February 11, 2026
Talking about contemporary higher education means talking about work-aligned learning
Over the last decade, UK higher education has been insistently asked to prove that what happens in teaching and learning […]
February 4, 2026
Skills England has a new way to talk about skills, and the sector needs to listen
Although on one level tertiary education policy has never been more concerned with skills, we’ve never really had a proper […]
November 28, 2025
Labour takes steps to bring higher education and local skills closer together
The post-16 white paper promised to strengthen statutory guidance on local skills improvement plans (LSIPs), including “clearer expectations on higher […]
November 19, 2025