Gordon Marsden MP

This simplistic pitch for two-year degrees shows ministers are more interested in their own PR than in building a model that works, writes Gordon Marsden

Labour has positive proposals on skills and learning, from career-boosting apprenticeships, to a National Education Service, says Gordon Marsden 

Government is 'addicted to models now dangerously outdated' says Labour Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Further Education and Skills, Gordon Marsden MP.

Failure to support adult reskilling and retraining means we may fall behind our international competitors as Brexit approaches, says Gordon Marsden MP.

Labour's Education spokesman Gordon Marsden writes that the Government's post Brexit uncertainty is threatening community based Universities and FE Colleges which currently receive EU funding.

Speaking ahead of the forthcoming Higher Education and Research Bill, Shadow Minister for Higher Education Gordon Marsden laid out the problems it could cause. 

The Shadow Minister for Higher Education, Further Education & Skills writes following the publication of the Government's HE White Paper.