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Professor Graeme Atherton

Articles by Professor Graeme Atherton

Businesses also have a role in reducing inequality

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 10 September 2024

A new report, the first from the Ruskin Centre for Social Equity, shows there are businesses who ...

Making a success of Skills England

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 30 July 2024

Taking a locally-led approach from the beginning would give Skills England an immediate kickstart...

A working ecosystem needs a local base

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 03 October 2023

Local authorities are the natural fulcrum for a dynamic, flexible and responsive skills ecosystem...

The problem with the levelling up cake

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 25 April 2023

Handing out funding from targeted pots and through competitive bidding leads to big disparities i...

Moving on from the poverty pageant

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 20 January 2023

Professor Graeme Atherton says an end to ‘poverty pageant’ bidding for growth funding would mean ...

The levelling up missions should not be shunted to the side

By Professor Graeme Atherton | 15 December 2022

The 12 missions represented the basis for a radical approach to addressing inequality and poverty...