The new legislation was revealed in today’s (11 May) Queen’s Speech during which the Prime Minister said his Lifetime Skills Guarantee was “central” to the nation’s recovery from the pandemic.
It will include reforms to the student finance system, giving employers a statutory role in providing publicly funded training programmes and give the Education Secretary “more powers to intervene in colleges that fail to meet local needs”.
The Skills and Post-16 Education Bill will be introduced to parliament next week (18 May) following the publication of the Skills White Paper in January.
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