Education and the spatial division of labour

Further education and prospects for ‘ Levelling Up’

Datos Bibliográficos

ID13041331
AutoresMichael Donnelly (0000-0003-3357-8178, University of Bath, autor de correspondencia), Joanne Davies (0000-0002-3742-761X, University of Bath), Matt Dickson (0000-0002-3955-126X, University of Bath), Aline Courtois (0000-0003-0777-5100, University of Bath), Predrag Lažetič (0000-0003-4309-1267, University of Bath)
Año2024
Volumen19
Número4
Páginas514-530
Fecha de publicación2024-08-05
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaContemporary Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2158-2041 • E-ISSN: 2158-205X
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21582041.2024.2418119
OpenAlexW4403717043
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas21

The educational solutions put forward in the 2019 Conservative Government's Levelling Up programme privileged higher-level skills training delivered through further education, sidelining traditional university degrees, reflective of broader critiques levelled at the higher education sector in terms of the value for money of some degrees. It goes without saying that further education provides crucial opportunities for many people and our analyses of Linked Educational Outcomes Data (LEO) presented here support previous research on the returns to further education study. However, it also underlines the way returns are contingent upon race, gender, socio-economic status, subject of study and, most importantly, geographic location of employment. This is reflective of the broader spatial division of labour that is the characteristic of the UK economy, which the educational components of Levelling Up did little to disrupt. We argue that the Levelling Up programme maintained the status quo with economically less prosperous localities seen as ‘places of labour’ – serving the controllers of capital in existing prosperous places, where the degree educated must continue to flock to take up the strategic control functions of economic production

Cartography · Division of labour · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Levelling · Political science · Sociology · Education Systems and Policy · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics