Paul Grainger

Paul Grainger has had a long career in TVET. He was formerly Principal of a college in Liverpool, as was then appointed Co-Director of the Centre for Education and Work, and Enterprise Lead for the Department of Education, Practice and Society at the UCL Institute of Education. He retired to 2020 but retains an honorary Senior Associate post at UCL. He undertakes professional development, research, and dissemination on formally assessed and post compulsory education. This has involved investigations into effective teaching strategies, curriculum delivery, and models of assessment. He has wide knowledge of the responses of institutions and professionals to policy change, and leads on studies into strategic planning, management and governance development within the TVET sector. Recent research includes a comparison of curriculum arrangements across jurisdictions with high PISA ratings and a review of progression from TVET to higher education. At present he is looking at successful,  inclusive, regional skills systems, patterns of entry in to work, and the importance of skills strategies for regional regeneration. He continues to study the significance of ‘sticky places’ in developing high skill systems, and the potential impact of the 4^th Industrial Revolution on entrepreneurial activity. With the G20 he is examining the likely effect of COVID 19 on our economic future.   Paul has been a member of the G20 Task Force on the Future of Work and Education for the Digital age since 2018 and was Co-Chair of the T20 Task Force 6 on Economy, Education, Employment, and the Digital Age. In 2021 he was appointed Co-Chair of Task Force 4 on Digital Transformations. Paul is a Senior Policy Analyst at Global Foundation for Cyber Studies and Research, USA