At a fringe event hosted by EY and Bright Blue, a panel of experts discussed how the UK can look to better prepare school leavers and what more businesses can do to ensure the UK has the skills needed for the future.

Alan Mak MP, chair of the Entrepreneurship APPG, spoke of the importance of apprenticeships last night at the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

Welcoming the Government’s announcement today to make basic digital skills training free for adults, Tinder Foundation chief executive Helen Milner stresses the need to “seize the opportunity” and help society’s most excluded.

Former Labour frontbencher Yvette Cooper was joined by a panel of experts to discuss the challenges to gender equality at an NASUWT event at the Labour conference.

Save the Children argues that the Government’s "focus and scarce funds would achieve more if directed towards early years".

Lib Dem peer Lord Scriven writes following his Lords question on 'Evidence that grammar schools improve the education attainment of areas where they are established'.

The PSHE Association has welcomed today’s report from the Women and Equalities Committee into sexual harassment and violence in schools, and its recommendation that the government makes PSHE education a statutory subject on the curriculum.

The largest teacher's union in the UK argues that rather than becoming consumed in a debate about educationally and socially divisive structural change, the Prime Minister should focus on tackling the deep educational inequalities which are the legacy of her predecessor.

As parents are planning for the September term new research by the national charity Turn2us reveals the financial pressures and stress parents are under from the costs associated with returning to school.

Rather than becoming consumed in a debate about educationally and socially divisive structural change, the Prime Minister should focus on tackling the deep educational inequalities which are the legacy of her predecessor.

Karl McCartney MP explains why parliament and Government needs to address the ever-increasing gender education gap. 

Labour's Education spokesman Gordon Marsden writes that the Government's post Brexit uncertainty is threatening community based Universities and FE Colleges which currently receive EU funding.

The PSHE Association has issued a warning to the Government over serious risks to child safety – as official figures show a significant fall in time allocated to personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education on the curriculum, including lessons on how pupils can help to keep themselves and others safe from abuse and online dangers.  

The PSHE Association has issued a warning to the Government over serious risks to child safety – as official figures show a significant fall in time allocated to PSHE education on the curriculum, including lessons on how pupils can help to keep themselves and others safe from abuse and online dangers.  

Growing employer demand for apprenticeships is creating a “huge opportunity” for education and training providers, according to a new further education white paper published by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI).

Responding to the HE-BCI survey, Kevin Baughan, Chief Development Officer for Innovate UK said:

The teachers’ union NASUWT congratulates students as it warns against future upheaval to the curriculum and budget cuts.

Commenting on the A-level results, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union, said:

With the full impact of Brexit on the education sector not yet fully understood, political consultants Harriet Jones and Victoria Hemmingway set out recent polling showing MPs have very mixed views on how attractive the UK will be to study in.

New apprenticeship funding proposals announced today by the Government look like a ‘fair settlement for small employers’, according to the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). 

Innovate UK is making a new fund available to help small businesses expand overseas.

The PSHE Association has today called on government to recognise the scale of the challenge the nation faces in relation to abuse during childhood in response to new figures showing the scale of such abuse.

New figures released today by the PSHE Association show the scale of parental concern about sexting amongst children and young people. An online poll of parents by YouGov* for the Association showed that 78% were either fairly or very concerned about sexting, compared to 69% who were concerned about alcohol misuse and 67% who were concerned about smoking. In response, 87% of respondents agreed that schools should do more to educate pupils about the risks involved in sexting.

This week at a House of Lords reception, the Tinder Foundation and NHS England launched the Widening Digital Participation programme