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Rethinking social mobility for the levelling up era

Social mobility should not just be about ladders up into the elite for a few, but a broadly based advance for the many Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Download Publication It is time for a new approach to social mobility. For the past 20 years it has focused too much on the “long” mobility of sending people […]

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The skills White Paper will make Further Education more resilient

Education has recently been at the centre of so many Covid-related controversies that it is easy to forget the Government’s commitment to radical reform.  So the publication of  the Skills for Jobs White Paper is to be warmly welcomed.  It focusses on the realignment of the education system with the world of work, by combining short term measures with a long term vision, starting in absolutely the right place : […]

Waiting for the FE White Paper – Skills Reform and “Levelling Up”

The promised ‘radical’ White Paper for Further Education (FE) is due imminently. How will it balance the need to respond quickly to improve employment without losing focus on the more complex, and slower process of transforming post-school learning?  How will it link this to growth and productivity, acknowledge the importance of place, and ‘level up’ local and regional inequality? And what does this mean for devolution, in places such as […]

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