Labour must draw up plans for a possible coalition with the Liberal Democrats if it fails to win the next general election outright, a senior peer sai...
Careers advice is letting young people down, a report has warned, saying the majority have not been told about apprenticeships. Less than 10% of un...
The rise in apprenticeships is "deceptive", according to Lord Adonis, who warns there is a "black hole" for thousands of young people. In an exclus...
There is a compelling need for more - and better - youth apprenticeships. Long-term youth unemployment is rising as fast as university tuition fees, yet employers are complaining of a lack of skilled labour. It is because there is a black hole of no education and no work-related training into which over a quarter of a million young people are falling every year.
There's something to be said for a single application process for all school leavers: UCAS has been gesturing in this direction for a while, with UCAS Progress, which was intended to incorporate all the options from 14 to 19, although so far hasn't included work-based options.
There should be as many apprenticeships on offer to school leavers as there are university places, a former Labour schools minister has said. Lord ...
A Labour Government would carry out the biggest shake-up of vocational education for a generation to create a "gold standard" qualification for the yo...
Politicians who send their children to private schools should not be allowed to have any say over Britain's education system, says a senior adviser to...
High speed rail between London and Birmingham might not be achieved in the 2020s because of "endless dither and delay" by the Government, former trans...
The House of Lords should be relocated to Manchester, according to a former Labour cabinet minister. Lord Adonis argued that moving parliament's up...
Ministers have been "dithering" over the the HS2 high-speed rail project, the former transport secretary who first announced the scheme said on Monday...
The Purple Book - essays written by the so-called 'progressive' wing of the Labour Party - hits the bookshelves today. It's a long-awaited anthology ...
With more people on the train there will be fewer cars on our roads and fewer people queuing at our airports. As the report states high-speed rail will relieve capacity constraints on existing lines and transfer some 6 million trips from air and 9 million road trips. We will finally have a transport system that delivers what we all need - choice.
Radical change is needed to counter this virtual apartheid within our education system. The elite private schools - all of them are charities, believe it or not - should all be setting up academies and become directly engaged in providing state-funded education by means of these independent state schools, extending their excellent academic teaching and success at university entrance to more deprived communities.
