While the rest of you were reading the Sue Grey report, a long awaited set of government publications slipped by unnoticed.
If you haven’t clocked a new government seriousness about skills provision, you must have been at quite some party. But the rhetoric about higher technical skills qualifications, local skills improvement plans, and the impacts of upskilling on levelling up that has become so familiar has seldom been backed up by anything like what we might call research evidence.
