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Vocational education

April 2021

  • The GCHQ building in Cheltenham, England.

    People with dyslexia have skills that we need, says GCHQ

    UK surveillance agency says it has long valued neurodiverse analysts such as Alan Turing
  • John Curtis

    Other lives
    John Curtis obituary

    Other lives: Civil servant who helped to implement employment rights for people with disabilities
  • Student doing homework

    Social mobility study to assess lockdown effect on teenagers in England

    Academics will follow progress of 10,000 poorer students affected by the Covid-19 pandemic

March 2021

  • a man passes a 'going out of business' sign

    Covid crisis watch
    Only a large-scale skills programme can protect against Covid's fallout

    Andy Haldane
    Huge fiscal support has safeguarded jobs and demand, but only skills and training can prevent long-term economic scarring
  • A young family of four having a barbecue outside in the rain

    Brief letters
    An unwelcome sign of spring in the air

    Brief letters: Adult learning | Barbecues | Climate crisis | Boating advice | Codewords
  • Birmingham Metropolitan College.

    The Guardian view on adult education: bring back evening classes

    Editorial: Taking inspiration from a report produced a century ago, a campaign is growing around a new vision for lifelong learning

February 2021

  • A classroom of teenage girls taking an exam.

    How will you be affected by the change in exam results in England?

  • Female plumbing apprentice working on a central heating boiler

    Tell us: how has the pandemic affected your vocational course?

  • Penny Grimsditch at Fox’s biscuit factory in Batley

    UK ministers accused of 'settling scores' by axing union adult learning fund

  • A woman teacher teaching year 12 and 13 sixth form teenage boys about a car engine in a mechanical engineering class

    The Guardian view on further education reform: the wrong answers

January 2021

  • A pupil using a laptop at a primary school in Cardiff, Wales.

    Wales aims to reopen primary schools after February half-term

  • Yvonne Roberts

    Does true grit just belong in movies? Or can we teach it to our children?

    Yvonne Roberts
  • The education secretary, Gavin Williamson, in the Commons

    Treasury expected to balk at further education loan plans

  • Steph McGovern

    Steph McGovern: ‘Why I'm running a job clinic on daytime TV'

  • Overhaul of skills and vocational education to focus on employability

  • Pressure mounts on Williamson after BTec exams reversal

November 2020

  • John Quiggin

    The lesson from aged care in Victoria? For-profit services drive standards down

    John Quiggin
    For Australian health and education services, what’s key isn’t how many choices we have but the quality of the best choice

October 2020

  • Frances O'Grady

    Scrapping in-work training fund will harm economic recovery, warn trade unions

    TUC says the £12m scheme helps provide education to 200,000 workers a year

September 2020

  • Boris Johnson during his visit to Exeter College.

    Boris Johnson announces 'radical' plan to boost vocational training

    PM says young people need new skills to compete as Covid-19 has accelerated changes in economy

August 2020

  • A class of level-three Btec performing arts students at Stagedoor Learning in Cheltenham.

    Exams row: BTec students begin receiving revised grades

    About 450,000 students to get results that were either delayed or amended after A-level marking fiasco
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