Education spending: resourced for levelling up?
The next few years are likely to be particularly challenging for schools, colleges, universities and nurseries. There have been significant squeezes on all areas of…
Levelling up
Michael Gove has unveiled the government’s flagship Levelling Up White Paper, setting out a plan to transform the UK by spreading opportunity and prosperity to all parts of it.
The Levelling Up Bill will set out a complete ‘system change’ of how government works that will be implemented to level up the UK.
At the heart of this new way of making and implementing policy will be 12 bold, national missions – all quantifiable and to be achieved by 2030.
They will be given status in law in a flagship Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill. These missions will be cross-government, cross-society efforts.
Four key levers for successful levelling up
Delivering economic growth in every place in the UK will be the determining factor in the success or failure of the Government’s Levelling Up agenda. The route to achieving that will be…
New RSA and Ufi partnership to put adult learners at the heart of the levelling-up agenda
Ufi #VocTech Trust (@UfiTrust), the UK charity who champion the power of technology to improve skills for work through grant funding, venture investment and advocacy,…
Social class divide in adult education puts levelling up at risk
Stark social class divide in adult education puts levelling up and social justice at risk (@LearnWorkUK) 25th year of survey shows persistent inequalities in adult…
Latest levelling up funds go to less deprived areas as well as Wales and the south
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities announced the allocation of over £200m of UK Community Renewal Funds (UKCRF) yesterday to 477 projects, with…
Levelling Up fund focused on less deprived areas and areas with Tory MPs
The Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (@_CELUP) released the results of the first allocation of Levelling Up Fund monies 27th October 2021. Over…
Reforming adult learning is the pathway to unlocking the levelling up agenda
Earlier this month at the Conservative Party Conference, the Lifelong Education Commission – on which I serve as an independent commissioner – launched its first…
R&D spending should focus on the regions as part of ‘levelling up’
Catching the wave: harnessing regional research and development to level up (@HEPI_news Report 144) by Professor Mary Stuart and Liz Shutt shows how university research and…
CMI calls on the Chancellor to invest in management and leadership or risk ‘levelling up’ failure
#SR21 – Ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review on 27th October, the Chartered Management Institute (@cmi_managers) is calling on the Government to commit to crucial…
On the level: Northumbria academics outline what to expect from the government’s levelling up White Paper
With dramatic variances in wealth, health, life chances and wellbeing across the UK, a government White Paper on the subject of “levelling up” is expected…