Starmer pledged to boost vocational education as an antidote to youth unemployment. College heads want him to keep this promise.

The UK requires a joined-up approach to skills policy that considers the needs of learners, workers and businesses, is adaptable to changes in technology and the economy, and is flexible to local need...

Last year’s £1,000 uplift to adult care apprenticeship funding is not enough to entice training providers back to the market, as the number of new apprentices plummets, an FE Week investigation has fo...

Adult education funding will see a six per cent 'affordability' cut next year, the Department for Education has told providers.

Blunkett argues that his Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) helped disadvantaged students stay in education

And why Thatcher is partly to blame, but not in the way most people argue.

The government should spend some of its £2.1 billion revenue from the immigration skills charge to boost declining levels of ESOL funding over the last 7years

For people who have worked in UK public policy in recent decades, whether as civil servants, politicians or advisers, there is something wearily familiar, and depressing, about the current debate o…

Builders and developers say reforms are needed to recruit more tradespeople to build the homes being promised.

Young graduates are living in a very high tax country. We should be wary of adding to their burden

The 2023 Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), provides a comprehensive overview of adults' literacy, numeracy, and ad...

Information from AoC on HM Treasury budgets, including on-the-day analysis of key issues for colleges and the budget proposals we made to govenment

Government launches a modern Industrial Strategy and new Advisory Council ahead of International Investment Summit

Apprenticeships and skills spending will reduce reliance on migrant workers, according to one Tory leadership hopeful in his speech at the party conference

A new government is a moment of possibility. It provides an opportunity to turn the tide on years of austerity and the so-called 'reforms' of public services that have served only to cut costs and mak...

Episode · IFS Zooms In: The Economy · Over the summer we’re bringing you a series of briefings on the key challenges and policy options facing the new set of government ministers. Today we’re turning ...

Will AI affect the economy less than we expect?

It’s not a problem that people want to come to the UK – it’s a major competitive advantage

Councils are facing reduced funding, rising demand and increasing costs. New Local and IPPO's research project explores how local authorities are responding and what we can learn.

The UK’s higher education sector is in crisis — but they can draw solutions from financial institutions