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Employers will increasingly focus on graduates’ skills over technical knowledge

by Stephen Isherwood

23/04/25

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This is what greater collaboration between further and higher education in England should look like

by Sam Parrett

9/04/25

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Government economic policy depends on a healthily diverse higher education ecosystem

by Dana Gamble

26/03/25

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What the UK can learn from Scotland’s tertiary pathfinder experiments

by David Kernohan

24/03/25

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Regional pathfinders point the way for skills in Scotland

Regional pathfinders point the way for skills in Scotland

by David Kernohan

18/03/25

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Apprenticeships are not an “alternative” to uni, they’re alt-uni

by Andrew Bolt

7/03/25

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Policy change can help manage the demand for graduate knowledge and skills

by Chris Millward

3/03/25

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A blanket removal of funding for level 7 apprenticeships will damage government plans to boost infrastructure

by Deborah Johnston

10/02/25

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A new funding body landscape emerges in Scotland

by Michael Salmon

23/01/25

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Your 2025 higher education policy almanac

by Michael Salmon

3/01/25

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The Migration Advisory Committee thinks about skills and long term net migration

by Michael Salmon

18/12/24

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Innovation and skills in the English devolution white paper

by David Kernohan

17/12/24

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The scourge of — The scourge of "overqualification"

The scourge of “overqualification”

by David Kernohan

10/12/24

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How skills, careers, and industrial policy fit together

How skills, careers, and industrial policy fit together

by David Kernohan

26/11/24

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Local skills demand data may be more noise than signal

by David Kernohan

6/11/24

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Whether degree apprenticeships support widening participation depends on who we’re talking about

by Charlynne Pullen

23/10/24

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The role of universities in growing the economy – Labour’s industrial strategy explained

by James Coe

21/10/24

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What data do we need to formulate local skills policies?

by David Kernohan

21/10/24

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Apprenticeships work best when they work for everyone

by Dan Lally

30/09/24

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Year zero for Skills England

by David Kernohan

24/09/24

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Productivity and skills doesn't always mean vocational and intermediate

Productivity and skills doesn’t always mean vocational and intermediate

by David Kernohan

23/09/24

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The future of higher and degree apprenticeships under Labour

by Mandy Crawford-Lee

12/09/24

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The government should prioritise flexible learning to close the skills gap

by Sidharth Oberoi

14/08/24

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How do you work out future skills needs?

by Charlynne Pullen

15/07/24

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Skills England will be a very big deal

by James Coe

15/07/24

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The future of the LLE under Labour

by Michael Salmon

13/07/24

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There’s more to the future of skills than Higher Technical Qualifications

by Joy Elliott-Bowman

16/06/24

National service isn't a thing. Or is it?

National service isn’t a thing. Or is it?

by Jim Dickinson

26/05/24

DfE suggests we may need more graduates

DfE suggests we may need more graduates

by David Kernohan

9/05/24

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Whoever the next Chancellor is, a comprehensive skills policy is a must

by Mandy Crawford-Lee

4/05/24

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Collaboration, not top-down direction, is the key to unlocking the potential of Scotland’s graduate apprenticeships

by Hilary Collins

1/05/24

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Apprenticeships are not one thing

by Michael Salmon

27/03/24

Why all the fuss about an estate agents course?

Why all the fuss about an estate agents course?

by David Kernohan

18/02/24

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Universities shouldn’t stand still on employing apprentices

by Ben Rogers

12/02/24

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Podcast: International, REF delay, stagnation

by Team Wonkhe

8/12/23

We need more graduates, just not that sort and not there

We need more graduates, just not that sort and not there

by Jim Dickinson

6/12/23

Podcast: Minimum service levels, PTES, graduates and politics, apprenticeships

by Team Wonkhe

1/12/23

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Why is the government wrecking its own reforms to technical education?

by Johnny Rich

23/10/23

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Precarity and the new deal for postgraduate research

by James Coe

27/09/23

Podcast: Skills, research culture, industrial strategy

by Team Wonkhe

30/06/23

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All kinds of universities can provide skills for growth

by Jamie Roberts

25/04/23

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The Treasury needs to get serious about skills

by Anthony Painter

16/03/23

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Government priorities are everything, everywhere, all at once

by Annabel Kiernan

27/02/23

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Why Labour should prioritise tertiary reform over tuition fees

by Andy Westwood

23/01/23

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The anti anti-growth coalition

by Smita Jamdar

7/10/22

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Universities were built for academia, not training

by Elisabeth Barrett

6/09/22

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Fifty new university campuses and a British bacc

Fifty new university campuses and a British bacc

by Jim Dickinson

15/06/22

Podcast: Student experience, free speech, microcredentials

by Team Wonkhe

10/06/22

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Less jargon and more evidence is needed on skills

by David Kernohan

8/06/22

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Podcast: OfS investigations, uni leadership, skills

by Team Wonkhe

27/05/22

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The skills problem may be harder and more complex than we thought

by David Kernohan

26/05/22

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The education sector has an integrated future

by Simon Connell

25/05/22

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The government should get over its university hang-up – our future prosperity depends on it

by James Scales

27/04/22

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Targeting Blair: we ignore calls to address inequality and improve productivity at our peril

by Andy Westwood

25/04/22

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Sorry, but we probably do need more graduates

by David Kernohan

21/04/22

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What’s in the levelling up white paper for universities?

by David Kernohan

3/02/22

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Why we must protect student choice and retain BTEC qualifications

by James Kewin

28/01/22

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Even if BTECs disappear, the students taking them won’t

by Emily Dixon

25/01/22

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The high-skill high-pay economy is already on the way

by David Kernohan

6/01/22

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Students need to be taught the skills of tomorrow, not the skills of today

by Alison Watson

17/08/21

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Students will build back community better – if we support them to do so

by Richard Brabner

11/06/21

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OfS briefing on mature learners

OfS briefing on mature learners

by David Kernohan

27/05/21

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Is the HE sector looking in the wrong place for the government’s Augar response?

by Edward Peck

24/05/21

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Does Neil O’Brien have the answer to the levelling up question?

by Jim Dickinson

6/05/21

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Defunding BTECs could set the widening access agenda back by decades

by Graeme Atherton

11/02/21

The Education Committee announces a lifelong learning revolution on a Saturday morning

The Education Committee announces a lifelong learning revolution on a Saturday morning

by Jim Dickinson

21/12/20

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Seven things the HE sector learned in 2020 – and what universities should prepare for in 2021

by Debbie McVitty

21/12/20

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Agile critical-reflexive students? Start them early!

by Julian Crockford

9/12/20

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The College of the Future points the way forward for HE-FE collaboration

by Dave Phoenix

2/11/20

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Modern universities – beware of the higher technical trap

by Debbie McVitty

5/10/20

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The Prime Minister’s big speech on skills signals some major policy shifts

by Josie Cluer

5/10/20

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If industry-oriented degrees are the answer, what are some of the questions?

by Richard Wallis

19/05/20

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Higher technical is how we level up

by Rama Thirunamachandran

2/03/20

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ScreenSkills is ready to help educate the next generation of film professionals

by Tim Weiss

29/01/20

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“Other countries are astonished by the complexity of our tertiary education system”

by Sofia Ropek

5/11/19

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On fake news and faculties

by David Kernohan

30/09/19

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Can higher education single-handedly solve skills shortages?

by Tristram Hooley

10/09/19

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The future of skills in Wales looks bright

by Kieron Rees

9/05/19

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Letter from Australia: Two sides of the coin

by Julie Hare

14/04/19

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Everything you think you know about universities and technology is wrong

by Debbie Holley

21/02/19

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Are we on the right track with degree apprenticeships?

by Minto Felix

29/01/19

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A beginner’s guide to the T level reforms

by Minto Felix

21/01/19

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Let’s go fly a kite: The higher education landscape

by Marian Hilditch

8/01/19

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Let’s go fly a kite: Teaching and learning

by Camille Kandiko Howson

8/01/19

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Calling a truce in the sector wars over Augar

by David Hughes

10/12/18

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Other people’s children – Hinds on technical education

by David Kernohan

7/12/18

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Graduate-level skills

by Malcolm Todd

15/11/18

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Apprenticeships for our own children

by Liz Bromley

8/10/18

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BTEC’s back alright

by Camilla Mount

27/09/18

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A hierarchy of purposes in higher education

by Iain Mansfield

25/09/18

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Derby’s anchor

by Louis Coiffait

7/09/18

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Creating a new post-18 education system that works for everybody

by David Hughes

4/09/18

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Widening participation and unblocking the skills pipeline

by Dave Phoenix

23/08/18

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A fresh look at a national skills strategy

by Iain Martin

6/08/18

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More than a vote of confidence – making the industrial strategy work

by John Latham

4/12/17

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The skills debate needs more oohs than AHSS

by Andrew McRae

3/12/17

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Europeans want more vocational (not higher) education…

by Julian Garritzmann

28/11/17

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The industrial strategy white paper digested

by David Kernohan

27/11/17

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