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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.

  • Employer Engagement in Education: Closing the Gap Between Ambition and Delivery

    23 July 2026 by Rhiannon Tuckett-Jones
  • Milburn’s Young People and Work Interim Report: Reflections from the Skills Commission

    11 June 2026 by Max Bishop
  • The King’s Speech 2026: What It Means for Education and Skills

    13 May 2026 by Rhiannon Tuckett-Jones
  • 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…
  • 18 June 2026

    UK EdTech Parliamentary Reception

    Policy Connect, in collaboration with DOHE EdTech Hub, techUK and Weypoint, is hosting a parliamentary reception on the future of UK education technology.  Chaired by Tristan Osborne MP, the event…
  • 18 May 2026

    Skills Commission Report Launch: “Earning or Learning”

    Policy Connect’s Skills Commission is hosting a parliamentary event to launch Earning or Learning: A New Agenda for Youth NEET Reduction. The report draws on…
  • 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