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The APGSE publishes a weekly email Parliamentary Skills Bulletin, highlighting news and recent developments from across the political and education landscape. These bulletins are only available to the group's parliamentarians and member organisations. The APGSE also publishes news stories here, with information on the group's new and upcoming work. 

Brief Budget Comment

13th November 2018

In Summary 

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Education Questions, Anne Milton MP

Education Questions: Ministers promise a focus of Social Mobility

12th November 2018

Education Questions in the House of Commons yesterday brought up many issues that our members might find interesting. While any mention of degree apprenticeships was disappointingly left out, the issues discussed included ensuring quality in apprenticeship standards, social mobility and higher education fees, funding for further education and T-levels progress. 

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All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills and Employment Roundtable

23rd October 2018

In Conversation with Rt Hon Robert Halfon MP

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Time to embrace the future with a Minister for Lifelong Learning

11th October 2018

Appearing before the Lord’s Intergenerational Committee, Policy Connect’s Head of Education and Skills – Simon Kelleher – calls for a joint minister to lead a cultural shift in our approach to education and training

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Policy Connect Chief Executive Jonathan Shaw

Private schools should provide more boarding places for looked-after children

13th August 2018
Policy Connect CEO Jonathan Shaw was a children’s social worker for over a decade before his 13 years in Parliament. Here he reflects on the Education Minister Nadhim Zahawi’s call for private schools to provide boarding places for thousands of looked-after children as a way of resisting pressure to strip them of their charitable status.
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EduSkills blog: Apprenticeship Research

12th March 2018
Last week Grant Thornton and City & Guilds published “Generation apprentice”. Their findings suggest that apprenticeships are viewed as successful career pathway by many parents, young people and employers. Also more than three quarters of parents and young people think that apprenticeships offer good career prospects.
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Beth Wheaton

EduSkills blog: Data collection in apprenticeships

5th March 2018

Apprenticeship start data is the hot topic of conversation in the apprenticeship sector at the moment. How many starts are there? What effect is the levy having? Will we reach the 3 million target? Is the target putting quantity ahead of quality?  In the obsession over the figures, it’s important not to forget the individuals behind the numbers.

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EduSkills blog: Skills Commission Reception

26th February 2018

It’s been a busy week for team EduSkills, as we hosted a Parliamentary reception for the Skills Commission on Wednesday to celebrate the Commission’s Spotlight series, with a keynote address from Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Angela Rayner MP.

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EduSkills blog: How should we fund post-18 education?

19th February 2018

Today the Prime Minister is set to announce the details of a major review into higher education funding.  The Education Secretary Damian Hinds suggested that the review may result in course tuition fees reflecting the expected earnings of graduates.

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EduSkills blog: Money money money

12th February 2018

There have been some interesting developments over the past two weeks. Speaking at the Centre for Social Justice, Robert Halfon, Chair of the Education Select Committe, called for HE and FE to be intertwined, calling for more balance in funding. The speech was well-timed as the House of Lords Economic Committee met last week to discuss the funding gap between FE colleges and universities, and heard concerns from the FE Commissioner over adult education devolution plans.

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