Report Launch – UK Trade Policy & Animal Welfare

Online Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEWyqeKplwg   ResPublica, with the kind support of the NFU and the RSPCA, have produced a policy report, arguing that the UK can and must go further than the recent trade deals with Australia and New Zealand to ensure that animal welfare and environmental standards in food production are maintained in the UK. In the […]

In conversation with…. Sir Philip Augar

Online Event

REGISTER The Lifelong Education Commission is delighted to welcome Sir Philip Augar, Chair of the 2019 Post-18 Education and Funding Review, as the next speaker in its online seminar series. Sir Philip will offer an overview of the state of the policy landscape after the enactment of the Skills and Post-16 Education Act, followed by […]

Making LSIPs Work

Online Event

REGISTER One of the key provisions of the Skills and Post-16 Education Act was the creation of Local Skills Improvement Plans. These are designed to: Set the key priorities to make post16 technical education or training more responsive and closely to local labour market needs Provide a representative employer view of the skills most needed […]

ESOL for Skills Report Launch

South Thames College Wandsworth Hight Street, London, United Kingdom

REGISTER The Lifelong Education Commission's latest report, 'ESOL for Skills', calls for a much bigger focus on enhancing the provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages courses, not just to ensure social integration, but as a vital component of a strategy for economic growth. Better delivery of ESOL for settled immigrants and for new migrants, […]

In conversation with…. Lord Blunkett

Online Event

REGISTER In the wake of the publication of the Report by the Labour Party's Council of Skills Advisers, the Lifelong Education Commission is pleased to welcome Lord Blunkett to its online seminar series. Lord Blunkett will offer comments on how government and business can work together to boost training provision and productivity across the country. […]

Getting Trade Agreements Right

Online Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x67V0D7NHJI In partnership with NFU and RSPCA, we are hosting an online event to discuss future trade deals, and how we safeguard standards and recognise regulatory differences between jurisdictions in a modern trading environment. Speakers: George Eustice MP, former SoS Food and Rural Affairs Daniel Zeichner MP, Shadow Minister, Food, Farming and Fisheries David Bowles, […]

Investing in Skills for Life

Central London Location

PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION The Lifelong Education Commission is transforming into the Lifelong Education Institute. Attend the Conference to learn about our vision for the future. Speakers The Rt Hon Chris Skidmore MP Dame Ann Limb Margaret Greenwood MP, Chair, Adult Education APPG Tom Bewick, CEO, Federation of Awarding Bodies Iestyn Davies, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Wales Trinity […]

The REUL Bill and its potential impact on Asbestos Policy

Online Event

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWk3fYm9zqE The Bill includes the potential to revoke over 140 regulations relating to a wide range of health and safety including the Control of Asbestos Regulations. This online event will discuss the implications of the REUL Bill for the management of asbestos in the UK and what needs to be done to ensure the optimum […]

The Right Response; Conservative ideas to tackle perennial poverty

Committee Room 10, Houses of Parliament

REGISTER The Joseph Rowntree Foundation and ResPublica have worked together to publish an essay collection by 12 Conservative MPs, putting forth bold ideas to tackle perennial poverty in the UK. The essay collection will be launched at an event in Parliament, bringing together many of the authors, alongside policy stakeholders, to discuss these ideas, and […]

British Intellectual Conservatism: Past and Present

Churchill College, Cambridge Storey's Way, Cambridge, United Kingdom

DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME This conference seeks to analyse the British conservative intellectual traditions that often go unnoticed in the background of C/conservative politics. There is a strand of thought that posits the Conservative Party and conservative thought as anti-intellectual. Indeed, within the party there used to be a suspicion towards intellectuals, due to the […]