Podcast: NEETs and skills, research missions

This week on the podcast the government has put NEETs and skills at the heart of its pre-Budget messaging – with new industrial strategy jobs plans, reported changes to apprenticeship funding for learners over 25 and a Policy Exchange call for a new wave of technical universities.

Can higher education make the case that it belongs in the youth employment debate?

Plus we discuss what UK Research and Innovation’s £500m Missions Accelerator Programme looks like in practice, and our guests pick the stories that have caught their eye this week.

With Dani Payne, Head of Education and Social Mobility at the Social Market Foundation, James Coe, Associate Editor at Wonkhe and Research Agenda, Sharanya Sivarajah, Community and Policy Officer at Wonkhe and presented by Michael Salmon, News Editor at Wonkhe.

If not university then what?

Are there really more graduate NEETs than A-level NEETs

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