CEL Policy Update No. 11
Posted: 19 December 2007
This extract from the Centre for Excellence in Leadership's policy update covers the period 23 to 29 November 2007. It includes the following stories:
Education and Skills Bill
- Government introduces Education and Skills Bill; claims raising school-leaving age will provide £2.4 billion in economic benefit per year
Further Education, Skills and the Economy
- Brown lays out challenge for colleges and announces new welfare-to-work reforms in speech to CBI
- DIUS and DWP release report on skills role in welfare and employment reforms
- DWP plans changes to commissioning of employment programmes
- DIUS gives more detail on Train to Gain changes
- New scheme will train nurses to prepare their patients for employment
- Consultation on Qualifications and Credit Framework opens
- London Development Agency opens application process for £20 million in skills funding
- DWP to keep 55 Remploy factories open in modernisation plan
- Charity proposes mentoring scheme for new immigrants
14-19 and Schools Policy
- QCA will take greater role in setting A-level questions
- Girls continue to out-perform boys at all levels of education
- Daily Mail chief in talks with Government to sponsor academy
- Chief Inspector: No 'kinder, gentler Ofsted' under my watch
- DCSF: Achievement gap between black and white pupils is narrowing
- Report says colleges are successfully integrating 14- to 16-year-olds
- Teachers request more funding to cope with influx of migrant students
- Scotland to review Higher English qualification
Higher Education Policy
- Rammell defends termination of Government funding for multiple first degrees