The further education and skills sector is “an engine that has been left to run on fumes”, according to a report published by a group of cross-party MPs.
The Education Committee has laid out a blueprint for how the Government should spread prosperity and achieve its mission of economic growth by investing in the FE and skills sector.
The cross-party Committee’s new report concludes that the sector has been starved of funding and overlooked for over a decade, despite a growing consensus about the importance of strengthening vocational and technical education and the need for services to support students’ wellbeing. The further education and skills sector is critical to the delivery of each of the Government’s missions and it needs investment to deliver.
Below is a summary of the report’s conclusions and recommendations to the Government, including on funding, the role of Skills England, devolution, T Levels, apprenticeships, college teachers’ pay, and maths and English GCSE resits.
View the full summary on the UK Parliament website here.
Download the full in depth 124 page report here.