Fresh thinking on vocational and technical education is a good start, but fundamental questions about higher education and the state’s role in it remain.
We must embrace such issues as poverty, families, prisons and young people.
Both gave Downing Street the opportunity to assuage their concerns about Chequers, but still found the policy unacceptable.
The former youth worker and London Assembly member Shaun Bailey could offer hope to disadvantaged communities.
Plus: beware of claims that we’ve reached Peak Corbyn. Don’t raise fuel duty. Scrap hospital car parking charges. And: Hands keeps his promises.
From schools at one end to the job market at the other, many of the driving forces behind the campus mental health crisis aren’t vice-chancellors’ to solve.
The Government must act now, or risk a generation of school leavers missing out on the opportunity to acquire technical skills.
It also allows teenagers to develop a sense of adventure and independence – making them more employable and better citizens.
The alternative is endlessly loading more costs onto the young via taxation, when they are already significantly worse off than their parents.
Funding an ‘apprenticeship with a heart’ could help broaden access to overseas service whilst getting more money to the front line.
Plus: Willetts loses at least one of his brains. Labour frets about losing Lewisham East (which it shouldn’t do). And: Morgan and Clarke, not the Brexiteers, are the real obsessives.
They need time and resources spent on preparing them for employment and for life – and for their Government to adapt as quickly as they are doing.
The Resolution Foundation’s new report is a serious piece of work, but its proposals to improve social care funding also bring political problems.
The police know where the hot spots are. They must identify the most harmful gang members and can give them a stark choice.
The old, with their savings, could help the young. The economically active young could help the old, by giving them an income.