New thinking, ideas & policy solutions for post-18 education in the UK
A review of higher education funding is inevitable
A review of higher education funding is inevitable
As John Blake is announced as the first Director of The Post-18 Project, he argues that politicians must not ignore the feelings running ever deeper about the student loans system.
4 February 2026
The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience
The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience
A policy paper on the chronic lack of institutional memory from regulators and government and the urgent need for cross-sector learning
25 June 2025
Tooling up: building a new economic mission for higher education
Tooling up: building a new economic mission for higher education
We argue for a fundamental shift in how the UK government conceptualises, regulates, and incentivises higher education to align it more closely with a new, proactive industrial strategy aimed at driving national economic growth and addressing regional inequalities
9 June 2025