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Posts Tagged: Vocational Education

Robert Halfon: Ministers should value the Open University no less than Oxbridge. And the latter should open up to apprenticeships.

What is the objective of higher education if it does not play a major role in addressing our country’s skills deficit?

By Robert Halfon MP | 11 April 2018 | 41 comments

Peter Ainsworth: To solve the problems of higher education funding, universities themselves must share some of the risk

All the risks of the regime fall presently to students and taxpayers. Not only is this unfair and morally questionable, but it leads directly to undesirable outcomes.

By Peter Ainsworth | 26 February 2018 | 36 comments

James Frayne: Focusing on university fees neglects the most important and potent parts of the new education review

Vocational and technical education are key to changing lives, and hold the potential to change people’s votes, too. They should dominate the Government’s attention.

By James Frayne | 20 February 2018 | 56 comments

“We need to throw away this outdated attitude for good.” May’s higher education speech. Full Text.

“That means equality of access to an academic university education, and a much greater focus on the technical alternatives too.”

19 February 2018 | 36 comments

Robert Halfon: Three big Conservative achievements. Better schools, more apprenticeships – and help for lower paid people.

Of course, mistakes are made, and governments get things wrong – but there is also a duty to make sure that the good gets out into the public sphere too.

By Robert Halfon MP | 14 February 2018 | 50 comments

David Willetts: Less money for universities and more for training. This view is simple, seductive – and wrong. Here’s why.

In the first of two pieces on Higher Education, the former Universities Minister argues that the conventional account of how fees and funding works is mistaken.

By David Willetts | 6 February 2018 | 61 comments

Higher and technical education. No young person left beHinds, er, behind.

Yes, we need a resource shift to technical education. But the loss of the Tory majority last June will make it very slow going.

By Paul Goodman | 11 January 2018 | 60 comments

James Frayne: The Industrial Strategy. Top marks for spin. Lower ones for content.

Gone is the Conservative certainty of reducing taxes to promote businesses’ own investment and growth.

By James Frayne | 28 November 2017 | 37 comments

Nadhim Zahawi: Unfussily, quietly and impressively, Hammond’s Budget has prepared the ground for national recovery

The Chancellor has not suddenly changed who he is; he has carefully analysed the issues we face and plotted out a course of action to build a Britain fit for the future.

By Nadhim Zahawi MP | 27 November 2017 | 30 comments

George Freeman: We need a new Chairman and team at CCHQ to lead a radical programme of Conservative renewal

Let’s have Policy Board outside of the constraints of the Government machine – and a commission on what Britain should look like post-Brexit.

By George Freeman MP | 20 November 2017 | 43 comments

Spreadsheet Phil must become Storyteller Phil – if his Budget is to succeed where the Tory conference failed

The Chancellor needs to help deliver the sense of direction so strikingly absent in Manchester last month, and indeed since last June’s election.

By Paul Goodman | 16 November 2017 | 94 comments

James Palmer: Ofsted measures academic achievement. Let’s get it measuring apprenticeship success too.

Another option would be for Ofsted to rate the school in question from “Outstanding” to “Inadequate” for its engagement and the breadth of its careers advice.

By James Palmer | 12 November 2017 | 20 comments

Ideas for the Budget 5) James Kirkup: Ditch the surplus target. Build new towns. Raise inheritance taxes and boost universal credit.

The Social Market Foundation isn’t tied to any party. We’re centrists – our advice and ideas on offer to anyone who wants to put common sense ahead of ideology.

By James Kirkup | 10 November 2017 | 45 comments

Jonathan Gullis: We Conservatives should make more of our achievements on education reform

The introduction of a classical liberal education system that has knowledge and rigour at its core means a better future for the next generation.

By Jonathan Gullis | 25 October 2017 | 22 comments

James Bundy: Schools, housing, social mobility – and the passionate case that Scottish Conservatives must make

Voters aren’t focusing on the constitution, but on the SNP’s record in Government. We must be ready to capitalise on this by telling then the truth.

By James Bundy | 19 September 2017 | 13 comments

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