Overview

Ten different issues were identified under this topic. 

Short articles have been written on these issues to help parliament identify what action it may wish to take. New articles will be added when they become available. 

Articles

Upcoming articles

  • Funding of further and higher education
  • Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
  • Vocational and technical education and apprenticeships
  • Green skills and jobs
  • Workforce upskilling and lifetime learning
  • Barriers to and within employment
  • Regional inequalities in work

Acknowledgements

POST would like to thank consultation respondents and peer reviewers for kindly giving up their time to support this work, including:

  • Professor Nicola Dandridge, University of Bristol*
  • Professor Nicola Pitchford, University of Nottingham
  • Dina Nayeri, University of St Andrews
  • Professor Deborah Robinson, University of Derby*
  • Chris Smethurst, University of Chichester
  • Professor Sharon Gewirtz, King’s College London
  • Professor Anthony Maher, Leeds Beckett University*
  • Professor Alpesh Maisuria, University of the West of England
  • Dr Agnieszka Rydzik, University of Lincoln
  • Dr Robert de Vries, University of Kent*
  • Professor Agnes Kukulska-Hulme, Institute of Educational Technology
  • Professor Christian Bokhove, University of Southampton
  • Professor David Putwain, Liverpool John Moores University*
  • Professor Simon McGrath, University of Glasgow
  • Dr Tim Dickinson, Arts University Plymouth
  • Professor Don Passey, Lancaster University
  • Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope, Plymouth Marjon University
  • Professor Irena Grugulis, University of Leeds
  • Professor Amanda Taylor-Beswick, University of Cumbria
  • Professor Birgitta Rabe, University of Essex*
  • Professor Roger Penlington, Northumbria University
  • Dr Richard Nicholls, University of Worcester
  • Professor Olga Tregaskis, University of East Anglia
  • Professor Patricia Findlay, University of Strathclyde
  • Professor Alison Shaw, Newcastle University
  • Professor Mike Seal, St Mary’s University
  • Professor Farzana Shain, Goldsmiths University of London*
  • Emily Woodruff, University of Warwick
  • Professor Michael Thomas, Birkbeck University of London
  • Professor Charles Hulme, Oxford Brookes University

*denotes people and organisations who acted as external reviewers of the briefing.

Horizon Scan 2024

Emerging policy issues for the next five years.