Popular culture has it that today’s teens are feckless, work-shy layabouts, happier to play Candy Crush than to put in a solid day’s work. That’s absolutely not a view I subscribe to. Here at Nestlé UK, we employ over 500 …
Today saw the launch of Building productivity in the UK - the latest publication from the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS). As contributors to the report, research and findings from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) helped …
Retail and hospitality represent two of the largest sectors in the UK economy, employing 5.7 million people across the UK. That’s one in five of all jobs. Yet low pay and high staff turnover continue to be the hall marks …
Youth unemployment is falling – but it is falling more slowly than adult unemployment. And getting a foot on the first rung of the career ladder is still harder to achieve than it was twenty years ago. This is an …
It is a common refrain from employers’ groups that their members are unable to find young employees with the right experience as well as the right skills. Dig a little deeper, and those headlines about feckless youth are often unfounded. …
In our latest guest blog, Professor Ewart Keep, Director of Oxford University’s Centre on Skills, Knowledge & Organisational Performance discusses the key points from his latest UKCES Masterclass on the future of vocational education and training. You can watch the …
Helen Lamb is Executive Director, Managed Infrastructure Services, Fujitsu UK & Ireland. Do technology roles have an image problem? Figures out today show that only a quarter of people working in the sector are women – which would indicate that it …
Ever since I joined the workforce in the 1970s the challenges facing women at work has been a hot topic for debate. Some things have changed but not nearly enough. Forty-five years on from the Equal Pay Act, women still …
When I joined the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) this January, I was excited about the work I was asked to lead on shaping a competition for the UK Futures Programme on tackling gender inequality. I had worked …
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