Department for Education

Gillian Keegan is the Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills at the Department for Education.

The minister’s responsibilities include:

  • strategy for post-16 education (jointly with Minister of State for Universities)
  • technical education and skills including T Levels and qualifications review
  • apprenticeships including traineeships
  • further education workforce
  • further education provider market including quality and improvement and further education efficiency
  • adult education, including the National Retraining Scheme and basic skills
  • Institutes of Technology and National Colleges
  • reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training
  • careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company
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News

DfE News: Minister pledges to work to eradicate racism in FE

Black FE Leadership Group says it remains concerned about the lack of recognition of the need to review all post 16 curricula and qualifications

There is “no place for racism” in the education system, apprenticeships and skills minister Gillian Keegan has said.

DfE News: Apprenticeships and Skills Minister Visits DCG

Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills Gillian Keegan MP has visited Derby College Group (DCG), which is the first FE provider in the East Midlands to launch the new T-Level qualifications, to see for herself how the study programmes will develop.

DfE News: Multi-million-pound funding package for school transport

New funding for local authorities to ease pressure on public transport as children return in September

Thousands of students will be supported with new dedicated school and college transport to get them to school or college in the autumn term, the Education Secretary said today.