Staying the Course Press Release

Professor Alan Smithers: “Compulsion at 16 will lead to alienation and disaffection”

A leading education specialist has attacked Government proposals to raise the participation age to 18.

Government must tackle the rising tide of job insecurity

Over the past decade, UK workers have reported ever higher feelings of job-insecurity. As the credit crunch begins to bite and in light of last week’s Budget reducing growth forecasts, the Government needs to take urgent action to address Britain’s endemic insecurity. Otherwise it will be unable to weather any economic downturn. - Read more...

Top Banker calls for new world body to tackle climate change

Simon Linnett, Executive Vice-Chairman of Rothschild, has called for a new international body, the World Environment Agency, to regulate carbon trading. - Read more...

Minister to give address on Adult Education

The Value of Adult Education in the 21st Century Rt. Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills Introduction from Prof Richard Taylor, Director of Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge - Read more...

2 million new homes on green land

If the UK is to meet the government’s housing target of 3 million new homes by 2020, it will have to build 1.8 million new houses on greenfield sites or the Green Belt, argues the first report from the SMF’s Internal Commission, Should the green belt be preserved? The report outlines the preliminary findings of the Commission, concluding that the 3 million target is the minimum need to ease the UK’s overstretched housing market. - Read more...