The Post-18 Project

The Post-18 Project is an initiative to shape the policy environment around universities and colleges and provide practical solutions for anyone with a stake in the success of post-18 education in the UK. We bring new thinking, ideas and analysis from experts around education to drive reform of post-18 education in the UK. An initiative from the team behind Wonkhe – the home of the UK higher education debate – The Post-18 Project has been initially set up to offer a new Labour government in Westminster policy and ideas and solutions, and develop the most exciting original thinking around the sector. We seek to help shape the policy environment with practical ideas, helpful research, big thoughts and new ways to think about how post-18 education can be funded, the system configured, and how institutions relate to the outside world as well as their own staff and students. Our recommendations always aim to be practical and achievable, not pie in the sky, and could depend on institutional staff and leaders, regulators, policymakers or politicians to make a reality. The system needs reform. Our aim is to provide the foundations for change, and capacity within the sector itself to have the conversation about the how, what, when and why of it all.