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

Campaigns

Gillian has been working to secure more funding in schools across the Chichester constituency.

As the only degree level apprentice in the House of Commons Gillian is championing more high-quality apprenticeships.

Details on the fund and how to apply.

Lists of local authorities seeking academy and free school proposers, and of all academies and free schools already set up.

Contact details for organisations contracted to offer governance leadership and clerking development opportunities.

Weekly shopping vouchers worth £15 to spend at supermarkets while schools are closed due to coronavirus

Information about subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) support for initial teacher training (ITT) recruitment.

How to apply for CCF funding, a peer-support programme to help FE colleges share good practice and develop quality improvement priorities

Guidance for schools and colleges to support them keeping children safe, including online, during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

Data on gifts and hospitality received by Department for Education special advisers, and meetings they attended with senior media figures

Mandatory guidance on the criteria that organisations must meet to provide initial teacher training (ITT).

Guidance for schools and other educational settings in providing advice about the novel coronavirus, COVID-19.