The skills White Paper will make Further Education more resilient
Related Content 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...
Waiting for the FE White Paper – Skills Reform and “Levelling Up”
Related Content 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? ...
Why universities had to be challenged
Related Content Getting 50% of 18-year-olds into FE led to low productivity, poor social mobility and cultural division It is now official. The helter skelter expansion of UK higher education ushered in 21 years ago by Tony Blair’s pledge to send half of school...
Facts vs feelings in the BLM debate
Related Content Despite activist anger, the statistics tell a broadly positive story about black middle-class advancement George Floyd’s appalling murder and the global outrage it triggered has evolved into a broader protest about black disadvantage and racism in...
