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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.

  • In Conversation with Sharon Weldon: What Simulation Can Teach the NHS

    1 September 2026 by Rhiannon Tuckett-Jones
  • In Conversation with Devan Chauhan: On Nursing, Policy, and What Comes Next

    26 August 2026 by Rhiannon Tuckett-Jones
  • UCAS Results Day 2026: Grades, Gaps and the Growing Cost of Going to University

    13 August 2026 by Rhiannon Tuckett-Jones
  • 20 October 2026

    Parliamentary Roundtable on Mayors and Metro Mayors: Skills Devolution

    This event, convened by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers and Employment (APGSCE), will bring together parliamentarians and local government representatives to discuss the role of devolution…
  • 1 December 2026

    Migration, Skills and Labour Market Integration

    This roundtable will examine how Skills England’s sector job plans are seeking to reduce reliance on migration in priority sectors, including the effectiveness of pathways…
  • 13 July 2026

    Higher Education Commission Report Launch – Trained for Tomorrow: A Plan for the Future NHS Workforce

    Policy Connect’s Higher Education Commission, is hosting a parliamentary event to launch Trained for Tomorrow: A Plan for the Future NHS Workforce.  Trained for Tomorrow sets out an evidence-based programme of reform to…
  • Policy Connect publishes Interim Report on Higher Education Commission inquiry into healthcare education and training

    10 March 2026
  • 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
  • The Future of Careers Policy: Progress and Priorities

    5 December 2025
  • Count on It report cover

    Count on It

    Numeracy, AI, and Social Mobility
    14 July 2026
  • Trained for Tomorrow report cover

    Trained for Tomorrow

    A Plan for the Future NHS Workforce
    13 July 2026
  • Earning or Learning

    A New Agenda for Youth NEET Reduction
    18 May 2026
  • Skills in the Age of AI

    28 May 2025