Title:
WEEKEND READING: How higher education needs to fit into lifelong learning
Authors:
Graeme Atherton
Director of the National Education Opportunities Network (NEON), University of West London
&
Gordon Marsden
Shadow Minister for Higher and Further Education and Skills from 2015 to 2019
Published:
Higher Education Policy Institute, 15 May 2021
From the blog post:
Lighter days, brighter COVID statistics and the tremendous NHS achievement of mass vaccination across the UK. Spring has sprung – but even though the shoots of recovery promise more normal living, there remains a complex and potentially precarious route map towards achieving that goal post-COVID.
Where, though, does higher education in England stand now in the midst of this uncertain future? How much will, according to Oxford Economics, the £95 billion contributed by the sector to UK GDP annually count for in the route map for a post-COVID future for all those who work, study or administer in higher education institutions?