The Department for Education is on a matchmaking drive.
Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi is currently overseeing several initiatives aimed at driving integration between education sectors.
Universities are being tasked with doing more with schools to help disadvantaged pupils, with a push on reformed access and participation plans being led by the Office for Students’ new director for fair access and participation, John Blake. And universities are also working more closely with colleges and employers through the Institutes of Technology programme. Skills minister Alex Burghart has praised the project for bringing educators together with employers like Fujitsu and Siemens, with the minister predicting IoTs will become “the pinnacle of technical education”.
