Director General, Skills
Julia Kinniburgh
Biography
Julia Kinniburgh is the Director General for Skills Group, taking on the role in December 2022.
Prior to this she was Director General for Strategy Group from April to December 2022.
Julia’s previous roles in government include:
- Director General for COVID-19 Response and Schools Recovery at the Department for Education
- Director General for the Serious and Organised Crime Group at the Home Office
- director with responsibility for the national curriculum, national qualifications and school accountability at the Department for Education
- senior roles at HM Revenue & Customs and the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
She has also held roles with the emergency services and local government.
Director General, Skills
The director general is a member of the Department for Education’s leadership team and attends both the implementation and management committees.
The role is responsible for:
- higher and further education strategy and policy
- apprenticeships
- T Levels
- student finance and the lifelong loan entitlement
- further education provision, quality, restructuring and intervention
- the adult education budget and 16 to 19 funding
- workforce development, upskilling and lifetime learning, including skills bootcamps
- careers and basic skills, including Multiply
- analysis and data, including the exploitation of big data for further and higher education, and the Unit for Future Skills
- sponsorship of: