Ten #engineering consultants earned over £2.6bn from the #PublicSector in FY21/22. Find out who the biggest #buyers are & who they're working with in our latest report:

The UK energy sector is not adequately prepared for a green future, according to a majority of workers in the sector 🚨 Click on the link to read our newly launched report, in partnership with Engineering UK 👇 #NetZeroWeek ♻️

Great event with some well informed and balanced inputs from practitioners

Having a great afternoon with West Midlands Combined Authority colleges and training providers, sharing our vision for the impact we can make with £164m skills investment.

Read more about why we are too focused on supply side solutions to demand led problems in #ThinkFurther blog by James Staniforth, Principal and Chief Executive, @ShrewsColGroup. NCFE. aoc.co.uk/news-campaigns…

Skills for jobs: implementing a new FE funding & accountability system Department for Education response published today. The majority of the changes here impact colleges, but the new funding rates & methodology will impact all provider types for adult ed AELP assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…

Our #LowCarbonEnergy report has launched, & we wanted to share our recommendations for decarbonising: 📄 Stronger policy frameworks 🤝 Work collaboratively 💰 Invest in lifelong learning 📚Support a skills pipeline Check out Bright Futures, below: 👇

We’ve just published the final #TLevels e-bulletin for this academic year! This edition includes information about the summer series results, the approvals process, learner registration deadlines coming up in September & more. Read it now on our website. ow.ly/K83750PajF8

“We want people to move into a job that they’re happy in.” 🌤️ Great to hear Julie Ward, project coordinator of our New Futures programme, interviewed on BBC Tees by Amy Oakden today. (2:20:17) 📻 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #LWNewFutures Covid-19 Support Fund Redcar & Cleveland

Could not agree more Simon - great organisation doing some important facilitator intervention work

True enough Tom but equally employers are not considering job share or part time roles that might entice them back. Bigger issue I think is long term health issues linked to economically inactive and gradual erosion of some entry level qual to employment options for youth

New post by me: The UK is much poorer than it ought to be – the US is nearly 40% more productive than we are. To get richer, we need to start thinking like a developing country and focus on getting the basics, like housing and energy, right. sambowman.co/p/britain-is-a…

📖Political parties must prioritise education, from the early years to adult reskilling, ahead of the next general election 📢From Education Policy Institute and Nuffield Foundation Read more here👇 fenews.co.uk/fe-voices/poli…

@ESFAgov confirm its c£500m to support the range of providers (not just colleges) who deliver 16-19 provision including ITPs who deliver c40k annual places - and this is how it should be, young people shouldn't be disadvantaged based solely on where they study FE Week AELP

Kicking off the G7 Productive Business Index launch and eager to learn more about what investments should be made to solve the productivity lag the UK faces

The productivity prophet Anthony Impey orchestrating debate around the essence of productivity challenges and opening up opportunities for action. We must now move from analysis to action and take ownership of that challenge

Important to consider links between new rights for flexible working, extended entitlement to 30 hours free childcare for working patents & time for parents to participate in adult learning and skills training ⁦Gordon Marsden MBE⁩ ⁦Right2Learn⁩ campaign-for-learning.org.uk/Web/CFL/What-w…

First full day for Cadet Vocational College - the new name for CVQO #WestminsterAward 2023 working with Cornwall Wildlife Trust today and finalists teaching each other to dance! @CVQOChiefExec Army Cadets UK RAF Air Cadets Sea Cadets Richard Salter

Essentially it still all comes down to connecting people to work and employers - young with level 3 education or slightly older with level 6 education. Solve the disconnect between jobs, locations, sectors and levels.