For a sector built on developing highly skilled people, we remain surprisingly tentative when it comes to describing how that ...

Andy Burnham's devolution package ends years of DfE resistance to handing local leaders power over post-16 budgets ...

Alternatively, the 14-16 provision offered by colleges has offered a fresh start in education for many young people who have ...

Mayors and local leaders will be handed a role in shaping education for 14- to 16-year-olds under plans for new technical ...

The announcement of new technical pathways for 14 to 16-year-olds reflects an understanding that the current system does not ...

Ministers have partially reversed a fivefold increase in apprenticeship co-investment costs just days before it was due to take effect. The Department for Work and Pensions has confirmed levy-paying ...

Pat McFadden has kept his job as work and pensions secretary in new prime minister Andy Burnham’s government. McFadden, MP ...

We tax firms for hiring young people, and pay young people not to work - then wonder why they don't, writes John Cope ...

MPs have criticised ministers for failing to consult Skills England and employers before removing public funding for level 7 ...

Andy Burnham’s announcement this week on post-14 vocational pathways marks another reset in education policy. Successive governments have promised to elevate technical education. This time, however, ...

Lucy Powell has been appointed education secretary by prime minister Andy Burnham, returning to government less than a year ...

The politics of place can bring specialist and mainstream provision together if inclusion is defined by belonging and ...