A modern industrial strategy requires a modern skills strategy. This means closer collaboration between regional employers, local government, and education providers.
The apprenticeship penalty is an acute example of a wider problem: our welfare and education systems remain poorly designed for people moving between earning and learning across their lives.
Why Manchester’s proposals could lead straight MBacc to square one
Greater Manchester’s reforms are a step in the right direction but the journey has much further to go to get our sector Bacc to the future, writes Marius Ostrowski
