Media contributions
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Title For Boris Johnson it is a slogan - for others, it is life and death: The puzzle of ‘levelling up’ Media name/outlet Manchester Evening News Media type Web Country/Territory United Kingdom Date 6/02/22 Description On skills, pointed out Manchester University’s Professor Andy Westwood on Wednesday, the target of 200,000 more people a year gaining high quality qualifications - 80,000 of them in the lowest-skilled areas - is ‘pretty modest’.
“That just about replaces some of the learners that have been lost over the last decade,” he noted on the Northern Agenda podcast.
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Manchester University physicist Dr Richard Jones, who co-wrote the Nesta report and whose thinking has been influential on government in recent times, admits it is a pretty ‘undemanding’ target.
But, he says, there is reason for hope.
“I think it’s really welcome that the role of R&D for levelling up has been recognised,” he says, “because that’s not always been the case in the past.”URL https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/the-puzzle-of-levelling-up-22998423 Persons Andrew Westwood, Richard Jones
Keywords
- levelling up
- UK politics