Sarah Worthington, professor of law at Cambridge University, and a member of a recent government taskforce on postgraduate education, agrees.
The latest taskforce report claims that "the education community has reached a consensus on the skills and competencies that are important … and a small set of indicators that are feasible and desirable to track at the global level".
A new joint taskforce set up by the health and education departments is currently working on ways to improve access to child and adolescent mental health services for young people in need of help.
He has already proposed the implementation of joint official health, police and education inspections and the creation of a child sexual abuse taskforce of professional troubleshooting experts in social work, law enforcement and health to provide support.
The taskforce helped to challenge the misguided view that global education goals have been largely met.
The Taskforce objectives are to develop a vision for pharmacy education; advocate the development of a sustainable pharmacy workforce relevant to needs (health, education and market); investigate the limited capacity of pharmacy higher education institutions, particularly in developing countries; and provide a framework for quality assurance of pharmacy education.
The Tory chair of the education select committee, Neil Carmichael, says it was "unfortunate" that the Small Schools Taskforce report came to light so long after its completion in May 2015.
In so doing, the taskforce has helped to refresh the case for a focus on education in the post-2015 agenda.
The government has also set up a taskforce consisting of the UKBA, the Department of Business, Universities UK, the higher education funding body HEFCE, and the National Union of Students to deal with the situation.
Fels' taskforce – which will include representation from the departments of immigration, employment, education, as well as the tax office, attorney general's office, the border force and the fair work ombudsman – has a broad remit to identify the systemic "weakness that create the conditions that allow exploitation of vulnerable migrant workers … and make improvements to stamp out exploitation".
