Simply Learning: Improving the skills system in England

Jan 8, 2010

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This report looks at the skills system in England in order to understand the problems which beset it and to offer recommendations for reform. It offers a critique of the 2006 Leitch review, which is seen as the major driving force behind recent Government policy on skills. Leitch promised us a simplified and demand led system, but what we have now is in fact the exact opposite.

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Ralph Hartley

Ralph Hartley
Senior Research Fellow for Education, 2009-2011 Read Full Bio

Tom Richmond

Tom Richmond
Education Research Fellow, 2008-2009 Read Full Bio

Anna Fazackerley

Anna Fazackerley
Head of Arts & Culture and Education Units, 2008-2010 Read Full Bio

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