Scrapping the Union Learning Fund is a spiteful act of economic vandalism
‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’, as the saying goes. Certainly don’t scrap it. But that’s what…
Gordon Marsden
The Lifelong Learning Commission offers us a roadmap through Covid
Given the unique pressures thrown up by coronavirus, how should we respond quickly but with footprints that also…
Lifelong learning will matter more than ever as we look to recover from Covid-19
The past 12 months have been deeply traumatic for all those who look towards the Labour Party. There…
Gordon Marsden: Poor Tory higher education offer shows ‘global Britain’ is a slogan, not a strategy
The huge disappointment across the higher education sector following the Migration Advisory Committee’s no change policy on overseas students…
Gordon Marsden: National education service will trigger a revolution in learning
The three-fold repetition of ideas has long been a powerful tool in politics. Think of Lincoln’s Gettysburg address…
Gordon Marsden: Let’s use education to inaugurate a new era of social mobility
Higher education, and particularly tuition fees, have not been off the agenda since Theresa May called her general…
Aspiration is a story, not a slogan
As Labour soul-searches for new leadership and policies, the word ‘aspiration’ has swirled around ever more densely. Though…
The Coalition government are creating a lost generation
As Ed Miliband rightly said at the TUC Conference last week, hard-working people are really feeling the strain…
