Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) blog:
Reflections on the employer support for higher level skills report
3 August 2016
For the past 20 years and longer, Ministers of all parties have wanted to see more employers support employees and apprentices to gain higher levels skills and higher education. With strong bi-partisan support in a relatively non-ideological area of policy it seems odd that employer supported higher skills have not become a more important part of the skills and education system. In a recent short project for the Institute of Public Affairs I wanted to examine why public policy had apparently failed. I have an interest: I was Secretary of State at the Department for Innovation and Skills from 2007 to 2009 and, more recently, had proposed radical reforms to higher education finance that depended heavily on the expansion of employer supported degrees.
This article was published on the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) blog on August 3, 2016
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In full: Employer Support for Higher Level Skills Report
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