More, Different and Better

Today’s guest blog, written by Tom Wilson, follows on from NIACE’s initial thoughts on the upcoming Spending Review and kick-starts a series exploring different perspectives from the further education sector. Tom Wilson is Director of unionlearn – the education, learning and skills organisation of the TUC – and a NIACE Board Member. Skills matter more [...]

The TUC warmly welcomed the recommendations set out by Doug Richard in his review of apprenticeships. We are pleased that the review has focused on the need to create standards and develop a world-class programme through raising quality and validating accomplishment. In our original submission to the review, we called on Richard to ‘pay particular [...]