Across the UK post-compulsory education policy is adopting a more “tertiary” approach – but how tertiary is defined shapes what happens in policy and practice. Chris Millward synthesises the reflections of an expert panel. Research and policy relating to post-compulsory education increasingly refers to a single “tertiary system” rather than separate sectors of “higher education” and “technical and vocational education and training”, or “further education” in the UK terminology. To read the Blog click here