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

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.

Chichester’s MP has given the city new hope for A27 funding after Wednesday’s budget.

Gillian Keegan is confident she will secure funding for the development of potential schemes for the A27 in the government’s road investment strategy budget two (RIS2) that runs from 2020-2025.

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.

This time last week I was 200 miles into the Arctic Circle with a team of Royal Marine Commandos, engaged in extreme cold weather training.

The big news in Parliament last week was the Government reshuffle. Politics is a tough business and there are unfortunately always winners and losers. I was privileged to get a call and be offered a ministerial position in the Department for Education.

Our NHS is valued by us all. It is there when we most need it, from birth to death and all the steps in between.

“The truth is that this is the best institutional food that I have ever eaten and I’ve eaten in schools, hospitals, and prisons all over the place. I think it’s amazing.”