Katherine Emms is a Senior Education & Policy Researcher at the Edge Foundation. You can read all of Edge’s ‘Learning from the Past’ series here.
The current shortage of high-skilled professionals has again placed vocational education centre stage. Unfortunately, shortness of memory in government and policymaking circles has created a disconnect between past and present attempts at vocational education reform. To remedy this, the Edge Foundation has created a repository of past policy reviews. As discussion swirls around the best way to address the growing gap in higher-level skills, one policy area we can learn much from is that around polytechnics. The topic waws explored recently by Gareth Parry, Professor Emeritus at University of Sheffield for Edge Foundation’s Learning from the Past series.
