Author: Ellie Hanson
Summer Series Exams and Priorities for a Truss-led Government Welcome to the restart of the Skills World Live Radio Show, presented by Tom Bewick. We have a more solemn show for you this week, coinciding as it does, with the lying-in-state of Her Majesty the Late Queen Elizabeth II. Recorded just before the sad news was announced, […]
The Skills World Live Radio Show is back this week with a special long-form interview, filmed at the Palace of Westminster, with special guest; Lord Blunkett. Presenter, Tom Bewick, and Lord Blunkett delve into the past, present and future, in this exclusive interview where Lord David Blunkett hints that the Labour party is considering turning the £3 billion per annum Apprenticeship […]
This week, the Skills World Live Radio Show takes its popular format of informed debate and popular music all the way across the pond, to Washington D.C.! The podcast’s UK presenter, Tom Bewick, introduces this special pilot episode of Skills World Stateside: keeping you up to date on all things American apprenticeships, skills policy and […]
After a short break, the award winning Skills World Live Radio Show is back with its ‘on the road’ format of the podcast! This week, we’re co-producing the show with Level 3 BTEC Media Production students at Walsall College in the West Midlands. Sponsored by Pearson. Themed, ‘Levelling-up through further education and skills in the West Midlands’, the students ask all the hard […]
In the first extensive interview to be broadcast with Minister Burghart since he took up the role 8 months ago, Tom Bewick puts the government’s skills policies under the spotlight by conducting a wide-ranging examination of: Performance of the skills system under successive governments Fall in starts in apprenticeships and high withdrawal rates Opportunities for […]
This week, presenter Tom Bewick, looks at the issue of apprenticeship reform in England since 2012; and asks whether the scheme is working properly. Overall apprenticeship starts have plummeted since the introduction of the apprenticeship levy in 2017; people living in richer post codes are more likely to get the offer of an apprenticeship than those […]
After a season break, the award winning Skills World Live Radio Show is back, connecting the world of FE! This week, presenter Tom Bewick, looks at the passage of the Skills and Post-16 Education Act and debates what it means for the FE sector, next. In The View, Lord Watson, Labour’s front bench spokesperson, provides […]
The Federation of Awarding Bodies has won the Digital Innovation of the Year Award, at the prestigious Annual Trade Association Best Practice Awards in London, on Thursday 17th February. The awards, organised in seventeen categories, brings together the short-listed finalists from trade bodies across the UK; organisations who play a pivotal role in supporting and representing […]
But don’t worry, the most popular podcast in post-16 education will be back on the air waves soon, as presenter Tom Bewick and his guests look to continue to connect the world of FE! Shortlisted by the Trade Association Forum for digital innovation of the year, we’ve got some great future plans in store, including […]
In our Christmas special of the Skills World Live Radio Show Tom Bewick shares the presenter mic for the first time, co-hosting with Employment Minister, Mims Davies MP. Before entering parliament, Mims was a local BBC radio DJ. So, the Skills World Live production team were honoured to record an episode with Mims and explore how the Department for Work and Pensions has been […]