The public sector has just swallowed another semi-autonomous set of institutions with little protest or controversy.
Modularised courses could help to prepare learners for work in growth sectors whilst reversing decline in strategic industries.
Radical devolution and a new focus on HE and FE are among two things that can help the Government achieve its aims.
We need to stop the obsession about whether more or fewer people are going to university.
If not we risk failing to empower people to train or upskill for good jobs, and losing the economic growth our nation needs.
Never mind that such a person would never pay off what they owe: the eye-watering fact is that interest itself becomes 68 per cent of the total debt.
Our new Lifelong Loan Entitlement will give everyone the equivalent of four years of post-18 education to use over their lifetime.
Some good things, a few bad ones, some absences – and an opportunity missed not so much to level up Britain as to level with voters.
These institutions play a vital role – despite what commentators, and sometimes politicians, say.
The sixth piece in a ConHome series this week on the Prime Minister’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
And when it comes to paying for the crisis measures, as we must, taxes must not fall on younger workers.
A piecemeal and half-hearted approach to funding skills-based education and training has undermined serious progress in this area for decades.
Over to them goes the problem of sorting the future of an inrush of students brandishing far better results than were expected.
A major part of the problem is high tax rates driven by borrowing for higher education courses that they’d be better off not taking.
Katharine Birbalsingh’s departure gives the Commission an opportunity to focus on families, employers and colleges too.