The Chancellor is groping his way, knowing well that the future is unknowable, trying to hold on to as much of the past as he can.
The world of work has moved on, so that training, and indeed retraining, needs to happen not just for 18 year olds, but everyone throughout their lives.
Given the Coronavirus uncertainties, whatever he announces could be even more provisional than most schemes of most Chancellors.
This ambitious business case is based on our experiences not only of recovering from the last downturn, but on the successes of the last three years.
It’s a good thing for former senior Ministers to keep thinking, going and contributing, and we wouldn’t be surprised to see a comeback to government.
This crisis, though we wish it could have been avoided – is a big wake-up call to these institutions that business cannot continue as normal.
The ideas of that decade are still with us, staggering around like a zombie in a garish “Global Hypercolor” t-shirt.
Given the salience of the topic, we are republishing the Chair of the Foreign Select Committee’s article above each day this week.
For a country deep in debt, lofty thoughts are not enough to justify such huge numbers of students doing things that don’t help them economically,
With one of the Britain’s top educational institutions moving its courses online, there are big questions to ask about the future of the industry.
Economically and politically, Beijing takes advantage of asymmetric openness: we’re open to them, but they are not to us.
We should be shortchanged no more. Either our colleges reform their financial systems, or lose whatever student support they still have left.
Steps should be taken to ensure than non-Russell Group institutions are properly look after in the coming, challenging months.
We have a university system where 34 per cent of graduates don’t get graduate jobs and which subsidises unlimited courses in media studies.