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Plan for jobs and skills
July 15th 2020
An overview of the government’s plan for jobs that includes a boost for worksearch, skills and apprenticeships to support economic recovery.
Leitch Report and Skills for Life
January 1st 2020
The final report of the Leitch review of the UK’s long term skills needs, published in 2006, called for 95% of British adults to have basic numeracy and literacy by 2020.
Adult Learning Technology Innovation Fund
June 11th 2019
The Government is investing £5 million to encourage technology companies to develop cutting-edge solutions, utilising AI and automation, to improve the quality of online lear … Read more
Institutes of Technology announced
April 10th 2019
The government has named the first 12 Institutes of Technology, which it says will be unique collaborations between universities, FE colleges, and employers including Nissan, Sieme … Read more
Government launches EdTech Strategy
April 10th 2019
The Government’s Education Technology strategy identifies five areas of opportunity where technology can be used to bring about a step change in education, and has a delivery targe … Read more
Incentive programmes for the recruitment and retention of teachers in FE
December 7th 2018
This research, commissioned by the DfE and carried out by CooperGibson Research, aimed to identify the strategies or incentives which may most effectively drive recruitment and ret … Read more
Effective practice in the delivery and teaching of English and Mathematics to 16-18 year olds
November 27th 2017
Report from the Department for Education on effective teaching and provision of English and mathematics to those without GCSE grades A* to C
Functional skills reform – employer consultation key findings
April 28th 2016
An update on the consultations, including the employer consultation key findings. The consultations have been designed to achieve an up-dated set of standards, functional skills su … Read more
Society for Education and Training (SET) launches
May 26th 2015
The Society for Education and Training (SET) is the new professional membership organisation of the Education and Training Foundation for practitioners working in the post-16 educa … Read more