Cabinet minister says he would like to see new institutions in places like Doncaster, Wigan and Grimsby

The Lifelong Education Commission welcomes the Chancellor’s plan to revisit how the UK tax system can best incentivise employers to invest in adult education:

Can the UK study its way into a future-proof economy? That is the question that the Skills and Post-16 Education Bill, which is due to enter Report stage on February 21, seeks to answer. We can predict a few possible answers to this straight off the bat.

The UK government’s White Paper is a good start but needs to do more to link local learning with local needs, says Marius Ostrowski