Reversing the decline of Higher Technical Education provisions in England could be key to realising the Government's Levelling Up plans.

The Lifelong Education Commission is running a series of monthly online talks, moderated by the Chair Chris Skidmore MP, covering Lifelong Learning, and all things related to policy around Education and Skills.

In this monthly session, we are happy to be welcoming Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities, to discuss the Commission's Skills and Levelling Up Manifesto, and how a Skills Strategy needs to align more closely to Devolution and Local powers to deliver on the promise of Levelling Up the country.

The Commission's second report seeks to explore how a place-based approach to education and skills can transform lifelong learning. This builds on the experience and practice of partners in Doncaster to establish a local ‘Talent and Innovation Ecosystem’.

What are microcredentials? Why do we need them? How do we define them and maximise their utility?

This Evidence Session focussed on Higher Technical Qualifications and the role of Universities in delivering Level 4 and Level 5 skills

This Evidence Session focussed on how Education and Skills can play a role in local agendas, especially when aiming to turn around places, by creating an ecosystem that supports talent and innovation.

In this first report, kindly sponsored by Birkbeck, the Lifelong Education Commission seeks to recommend how the barriers to adult learning can be removed; what future investment is needed to support this; and what change is needed to ensure the maximum flexibility that will benefit learners and deliver on the promise of a whole system change for lifelong education.

Evidence Session with Bill Lucas, John Butcher, Willy Kitchen, and Ashley Wheaton

With Luke Hall MP, Minister for Regional Growth and Local Government, Damian Allen, Chief Executive, Doncaster Council and Michael Stevenson, OECD

Evidence Session with Philip Augar, Claire Callender, Jack Britton, and David Hughes

On 26th May 2021, our Lifelong Education Commission, welcomed the Secretary of State for Education Gavin Williamson and the Minister of Apprenticeships and Skills Gillian Keegan, to discuss the Government’s White Paper ‘Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth’.

The Commission will seek to recommend how barriers to lifelong learning can be removed, what future investment is needed to support this and what regulatory change is needed to ensure the maximum possible flexibility that will benefit learners.