No dedicated skills bill. FE will feel it through the gaps.
Yesterday's King's Speech contained no FE or skills bill of its own. The sector's legislative future sits inside the Education for All Bill, the responses to the Milburn and Timms Reviews, and secondary legislation. For FE EdTech, the signal is continuity rather than transformation.
By Wistl Newsroom · · FE / Training
The King's Speech delivered on 13 May included no dedicated further education or skills bill. FE News' analysis, published the same morning at fenews.co.uk , noted the absence of any specific mention of FE colleges, the Growth and Skills Levy, or the qualification accountability framework. The legislative shape of the government's skills agenda will depend on how broadly the Education for All Bill is drawn, on the responses to the Milburn Review on social mobility and the Timms Review on disability and work, and on secondary legislation through the session. The speech did confirm continued inv