Where there is need, front line staff like doctors and nurses are underpaid, relative to what they should receive, and where there isn’t, a whole host of people are well paid.
Modularised courses could help to prepare learners for work in growth sectors whilst reversing decline in strategic industries.
There is a lot of rhetoric about boosting vocational training, but we need to do more to deliver it in practice.
From my experience, the days of photocopying and making coffee in a seedy office are over. Being an intern is a chance to learn.
Powers over transport and infrastructure will help us shape the places of the future. Devolved skills budgets will get the support young people need.
Looking back on my schooldays, I can see how little we had in terms of inspiration. We simply didn’t know what we could aim for.
It now needs to get real. This is clearly the plan in the next few months, starting with the Queen’s Speech tomorrow, leading to the Levelling Up paper.
“What will drive levelling up is not necessarily about roads and bridges but getting people ready for the industries of the future.”
The first of a ConHome series this week on Boris Johnson’s Reset Moment – and what should follow from it.
The devolved Adult Education Budget ensures that every pound delivers more qualifications that employers actually want.
What normalisation should mean is the return to a functioning market economy where our wants and needs are met in today’s circumstances.
If, that is, interest rates carry on at rock bottom rates. But we have to take a chance on growing our way out of this crisis.
The restriction on the number of apprentices small businesses can take on should be lifted. FE colleges should boost entrepreneurship.
If all young people who are received support as effective as Spear, it would mean 130,000 young people moving into employment, simultaneously filling over 10 per cent of the vacancies that are so troubling British businesses.