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We are promised a white paper in the area of post-16 education. The scope remains unclear. A comprehensive white paper would cover 16-18 education and training, and post-18 education - including adult further education and higher education in line with the Augar Review [available in VOCEDplus at TD/TNC 136.666]. Apprenticeships and adult and community learning would also be included. Alternatively, the white paper may focus on post-16 further education, skills and apprenticeships. When commissioning this pamphlet, we assumed a broad rather than narrow remit for the white paper. Our rationale for the pamphlet was straightforward. We wanted to identify the forces - some would say revolutionary - by which the post-16 education system will be shaped and the revolutionary forces to which the post-16 education system will need to respond. We asked each contributor to consider these forces and set out the key issues for post-16 policy makers taking forward the white paper. This pamphlet will inform our follow-up publication due in September, which will look specifically at what reforms should be included in the post-16 white paper.

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Contents are as follows: [Coronavirus Disease 2019] COVID-19: mending the economy, repairing the public finances / David Laws; The COVID-19 inheritance: building a fairer and greener Britain / Paul Nowak; COVID-19 and Brexit: the impact on industry, jobs and skills / Ewart Keep; Declining sectors and growing sectors post COVID-19 / Duncan Brown; Low pay, flexi-jobs and skills-based immigration / Kathleen Henehan; Automation, COVID-19 and the future of jobs / Andy Durman; Looming mass unemployment / Stephen Evans; The demographic upswing: more 16-24 year olds / Julian Gravatt; Mental health: an alert to the Post-16 education world / Lucy Thorpe; Lockdown: boredom or freedom? / Susan Pember; Key messages for the post-16 white paper / Michael Lemin. Show less