The Further Education and Skills Sector in 2020: A Social Productivity Approach

An LSIS commissioned report from the RSA’s 2020 Public Service Hub, providing an  independent perspective for the further education and skills sector on possible futures.

The report calls on the sector to take advantage of its new found freedoms by breaking away from a narrow ‘delivery of qualifications’ role to place more emphasis on citizen engagement, interaction with employers and civic leadership.  For FE to be transformative in 2020, the report recommends that the FE sector follows five new directions:

• Incubate social value
• Network Local Growth
• Drive public service integration
• Re-set citizen engagement
• Create platforms for open learning

The 2020PSH is a research and policy development hub created from the legacy of the 2020 Public Services Trust.  It specialises in developing practice-based research on social productivity in public services, and is based at the RSA.  For more information, please see 2020psh.org