The Progressive Policy Think Tank has released a publication called Going further: The case for investing in Further Education and adult skills. Its policy recommendations include commitment to increasing per pupil spend for 16-19 years in colleges and sixth forms from £5,200 today to £8,300 by the end of the parliament, establish a Job Training Scheme (JTS) as part of the ongoing reforms of the Job Retention scheme, suspend conditionality on people on Universal Credit who want to or are retraining, provide additional funding to fully fund the training component for apprenticeships for non-levy paying firms and introduce greater conditionality on the expenditure of the levy to target it at younger people, invest in colleges as key institutions in supporting the ambitions of people, productivity and places.
