Fresh thinking for higher learning and adult lives
Y Gorau Oll: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student
Y Gorau Oll: Making Wales the best place in the UK to be a student
Gwenno Roberts and Jim Dickinson set out eight student ambitions for Welsh higher education and test for the newly-commissioned review of Welsh HE. Is Wales prepared to make its system “y gorau oll” – “the very best”?
5 August 2026
Why the time is right for new thinking in post-18 education
Why the time is right for new thinking in post-18 education
In our launch essay, we explain how The Post-18 Project will provide practical policy ideas and solutions to the current government in Westminster, and build capacity in education to influence policy
19 May 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
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
HTML Parser: The cashpoint campus comeback – franchising, fraud, and the failure to learn from the FE experience
HTML Parser: 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
4 July 2025
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










