Apart from a few bootcamps and the Multiply scheme for adult maths, public spending via adult skills budget in 2024 much the same as it was in 2015 when the Immigration Skills Charge was announced. Mayors were given adult skills powers from 2019 onwards but over budgets fixed in cash terms
2/2. The Immigration Skills Charge was a July 2015 budget measure, following Migration Advisory Committee advice. Introduced in 2017, collected by Home Office from employers, sent to HM Treasury and not actually spent on skills. Or not in a way that HMT, Home office or DFE has ever tried to prove.
1/2. Nice to see one of the 4 leadership contenders saying that the government should spend the £600 million a year it collects via the Immigration Skills Charge on skills feweek.co.uk/tugendhat-pl... The surprising fact that is that this isn’t what happens now
Apprenticeships and skills spending will reduce reliance on migrant workers, according to one Tory leadership hopeful in his speech at the party conference
Adult, Further and Higher education can change lives, build democracy and transform communities. I was delighted to contribute to 'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.ukwww.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...
A new government is a moment of possibility. It provides an opportunity to turn the tide on years of austerity and the so-called 'reforms' of public services that have served only to cut costs and mak...
Insights and Evidence group also short of people with experience in using and analysing the Individual Learner Record data that is used across FE, apprenticeships and adult learning. I've met experts in the National Pupil Database who find the ILR a bit difficult so don't bother
Recent trends in UK working-age welfare spending, including this interesting graph. As a comparison, total education spending has been in same 4 to 6% of GDP range in recent decades. Currently sliding towards 4% as school population shrinks
What is common knowledge in my field, but shocks outsiders? Even with recent funding for "bootcamps" & the "multiply" scheme, adult education funding is 40% less in real terms than it was 15 years ago (IFS) and actual spending in 2024-5 likely to be a bit less because DFE rarely spends full budget.
The most constructive discussion I've heard in ages about tax-raising, tax-illogicality, and the impracticability of things that seem "obvious". From @theifs.bsky.social@pjtheeconomist.bsky.social@danneidle.bsky.socialopen.spotify.com/episode/4aZy...
Episode · IFS Zooms In: The Economy · Over the summer we’re bringing you a series of briefings on the key challenges and policy options facing the new set of government ministers. Today we’re turning ...
