Downing Street has confirmed that the Department for Education will take on the remit of higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and wider skills policy from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
In a statement Number Ten said, ‘Bringing these responsibilities together will mean that the Government can take a comprehensive end-to-end view of skills and education, supporting people from early years to postgraduate study and work.’
As a result of the changes, staff working in BIS on higher and further education policy, apprenticeships and skills will transfer to the DfE.
Downing Street said that the DfE would continue to focus on its core aims, ‘leading the Government’s drive to give all children the chance to get the best possible education at school’ and ‘improving childcare’, so that working parents will have access to 30 hours of free childcare for three- and four-year-olds from September 2017.
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