Campaign for Learning's paper Post-16 Education and Skills: Levelling Up Everyone, Everywhere, is a collection of 18 articles and recommendations by leading stakeholders and thinkers across the post-16 education and skills sector.
The paper covers six key considerations for the Levelling Up agenda – national and place based strategies, young people, lifelong training, lifelong learning and post-16 providers.
As the articles show, from the perspective of post-16 education and skills policy, levelling up is about people as well as places - the policy canvas is vast, the perspectives diverse and the insights important.
Together, our authors demonstrate the need for strong, nationally based as well as place based strategies if everyone, everywhere aged 16 and over are to level up through education and skills’
Download the paper to read the following pieces.
Part 1: Levelling Up and National and Place-Based Strategies
- Andy Westwood, Professor of Government Practice, University of Manchester - Levelling Up and the Department for Education
- Sam Freedman, Research Fellow, Institute for Government - Levelling Up and Post-16 Education and Skills
- Fiona Aldridge, Head of Skills Insight, West Midlands Combined Authority - Levelling Up the West Midlands by 2030
- Mark Hilton, Policy Director, London First - Levelling Up London by 2030
Part 2: Levelling Up and Young People
- Geoff Barton, General Secretary, ASCL - Levelling Up and Education: Lots of Stuff but Little Substance
- Sam Tuckett, Senior Researcher, Education Policy Institute - Levelling Up 16-19 Education
- Becci Newton, Director of Public Policy and Research, IES - Levelling Up Participation by 16-18 Year Olds
- Kathleen Henehan, Senior Policy and Research Analyst, Resolution Foundation - Levelling Up 18-24 Year Olds in England
Part 3: Levelling Up and Lifelong Training
- Olly Newton, Executive Director, The Edge Foundation - Placing Vocational Education at the Heart of Levelling Up
- Mandy Crawford-Lee, Chief Executive, UVAC - Higher Technical Education, Higher & Degree Apprenticeships and Levelling Up
- Ewart Keep, Emeritus Professor, University of Oxford - The Role of Employer Training in Levelling Up
Part 4: Levelling Up and Lifelong Learning
- Stephen Evans, Chief Executive, LWI - Levelling Up in England through Lifelong Learning
- Susan Pember, Policy Director, HOLEX - Levelling Up as a Nation of Lifelong Learning
- Simon Parkinson, Chief Executive, WEA - The Future of Adult Learning is in the Hands of Local Leaders
Part 5: Levelling Up and Post-16 Providers
- David Hughes, Chief Executive, Association of Colleges - Well-Funded Colleges to Serve Every Community
- Nick Hillman, Director, HEPI - A ‘Higher Education Institute’ in Every Community
- Chris Hale, Director of Policy, Universities UK - Levelling Up and Widening Participation into Higher Education
- Jane Hickie, Chief Executive, AELP - Levelling Up is as much about People as Places
Download the full paper here