The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) is today publishing a new paper, Connecting the Dots: The Need for an Effective Skills System in England (HEPI Report 167).
It focuses on the urgent need to break down the educational barriers created by regulatory burden and competition between education institutions, which is preventing our skills system from meeting the needs of learners and employers across the country.
According to the report’s author, Professor David Phoenix, Vice-Chancellor of LSBU, the education system only serves learners well if they follow the standard route from GCSEs to A-Levels through to university; it fails to deliver clear pathways for those who do not, particularly for students wishing to study more technical or industry aligned provision.
The Report highlights the fact that funding constraints are leading to ineffective levels of delivery through duplication across sectors, driving a quasi-market that is not necessarily in the interests of learners or the nation.
