Independent training providers should close their doors from Friday afternoon until further notice like schools and colleges, the apprenticeships and skills minister has confirmed.

Schools will close from Monday, except for children of key workers and vulnerable children

Exclusive: Planned reforms of the further education sector expected 'later this year', Gillian Keegan tells Tes

A White Paper outlining significant policy changes for the further education sector is set to be revealed later this year, Tes can reveal.

New skills minister Gillian Keegan has pledged “significant funding” for additional small business apprenticeships in the “coming year”, the Association of Employment and Learning Providers has claimed.

Applications for Round 3 of the @EducationGovUK's Taking Teaching Further #FE programme opened today (9 March 2020). 

Apprenticeships and skills minister and Chichester MP Gillian Keegan could be a win-win for the Conservative Party. She hails from the country’s ‘most Labour seat’, was a 16-year-old shop floor apprentice, and has a masters-level business intellect.

The winners of the Annual Apprenticeship Awards 2020 have been crowned at a glittering ceremony in Birmingham tonight.

During last week’s Cabinet reshuffle Chichester MP, Gillian Keegan, was appointed to the Department for Education as the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills.