Three cheers for apprenticeships, two for the apprenticeship levy

In this article, Andy Forbes, Head of Development at the Lifelong Education Institute, celebrates apprenticeships but expresses concerns about the apprenticeship levy. Despite its significant…

Lifelong Learning and Skills – What Are We Waiting For?

In stark contrast to the political chaos of the Conservative Party Conference, there was a striking amount of consensus at the Lifelong Education Commission’s fringe event on…

Rethinking How We Fund Lifelong Learning

One of the flagship education policies announced in the Government’s Skills for Jobs White Paper is the Lifelong Loan Entitlement. First announced in January last…

Learning Ecosystems: Doncaster's new model for levelling up skills

A local Talent and Innovation Ecosystem (TIE) is critical to levelling up deep-seated inequalities in towns like Doncaster   A new report from the Lifelong…

Lifelong Education Commission amendments to the Skills Bill

Speech by Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP (@CSkidmoreUK) on the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill Report stage: Hansard, 21 February 2022, columns 104–7, 122–6. To…

There are many possible roads to levelling up - It’s time we start building them

In their stiller, quieter moments the individual who conjured up the levelling up phrase must wonder what on earth they have done. Instead of an…

Lifelong Loan Entitlement: We must think carefully as we introduce modularised learning

Despite many questions surrounding tertiary education being up in the air recently, there is one area of policy development which appears to have been etched…