How LSIS is responding to the challenge of unemployment
“One million young people left on the scrapheap”. That was among the many headlines about the latest unemployment figures, which also showed total unemployment reaching…
Rob Wye
LSIS CEO Rob Wye on taking WordSkills forward
LSIS CEO Rob Wye discusses how far the sector has come with WorldSkills, and where it is heading. FE News caught up with Wye on…
New Freedoms: New Focus
This is a defining week for LSIS. We have published two important new documents for improvement in the sector New Freedoms: New Focus and our Strategic Intentions…
Equalities in difficult times
Excellent approaches to advancing equality, diversity and inclusion were shared at two LSIS dissemination events taking place in June and July. These highlighted some of…
LSIS CEO considers learning and skills in 2020
Amid the massive challenges facing FE, LSIS commissioned the RSA Public Services Hub to consider how the sector might look in 2020. This research indicates…
Streamlining the LSIS
The chief executive of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) has set out plans that will see the organisation lose 30 per cent of…
LSIS CEO Rob Wye tackles FE’s challenges
Rob Wye, chief executive of the Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), outlines FE’s greatest challenges. Mr Wye, who joined LSIS at the beginning of…
LSIS appoints Rob Wye as CEO
The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS) has announced that Rob Wye, currently director of strategy and implementation at the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA),…
The sector responds to the closure of the LSC and reforms in skills funding.
The Machinery of Government proposals to axe the Learning and Skills Council and transfer £70 billion funding to local authorities has been given a mixed…
Chief Executive’s message on Machinery of Government Consultation, in full
The LSC is a remarkable success story and I am proud of what it has achieved. Under its leadership, Further Education has been transformed. In…