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The Education and Skills team at Policy Connect provides the secretariat for the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers & Employment, the Skills Commission and the Higher Education Commission. The team’s vision is for a skills and post-16 education system that reduces inequalities, promotes employability, and drives growth. The tertiary system must work together to tackle skills gaps and deliver opportunities for all.

  • Autumn Budget 2025: What it means for Higher Education

    28 November 2025 by Rhiannon Tuckett-Jones
  • First Reactions: Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper

    27 October 2025
  • Conference Season Roundup: Skills Politics in a Post-Reshuffle Landscape

    6 October 2025 by Alyson Hwang
  • 25 November 2025

    The Future of Careers Policy: Progress and Priorities

    This event, convened by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers and Employment (APGSCE) in partnership with the Career Development Policy Group and Policy Connect,…
  • 10 November 2025

    NEET Inquiry – West Midlands Evidence Session

    The Skills Commission is hosting the latest evidence session in its NEET youth inquiry in the West Midlands on 10 November.
  • 21 October 2025

    First Reactions to Post-16 Skills White Paper

    Lauren Edwards MP, co-Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Skills, Careers and Employment, is chairing a short online discussion to share initial reactions to…
  • Skills Commission attendees posing for photo

    Policy Connect publishes Interim Report on “Earning or Learning” inquiry, reviewing evidence on how to support young people into work, education and training

    17 December 2025
  • Skills England – Priorities and Next Steps with Phil Smith CBE

    5 November 2025
  • Call for Evidence – Health Education and Training Inquiry

    14 October 2025
  • Skills 2030

    Building A World-Class Skills System
    24 April 2024
  • Digitally enhanced blended learning

    leveraging the benefits of technology in Higher Education
    20 March 2024
  • Higher Technical Qualifications

    How to liberate employers and skill workers for the future
    29 September 2023
  • Empowering Innovation

    The role of universities in boosting regional economies
    2 March 2022