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One Minute Monday - how prepared for work are education leavers?

Looking to explore a stat about employment and skills in under a minute? You've come to the right place: One Minute Monday takes a fact or statistic from UKCES research and serves it up to you in sixty seconds or less. It …

Statistics are no substitute for insight and judgement

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Imagine you’re buying a house, what would you do? You'd fire up your laptop, search for ‘estate agent’, and put your cursor on the first house you see, before gladly handing over your hard earned cash. Wouldn't you? No, of …

Work Experience Wednesday - Sarah Marsh

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Over the last few weeks, we've been using the UKCES blog to highlight thoughts and reflections from some of the young people who worked with us this summer. As well as our longer-term Apprentices, graduate internship programmes and short-term work experience placements, …

One Minute Monday - the UK's highly qualified workforce

Welcome to One Minute Mondays - where we give you the low-down on a fact from our research on employment and skills in under 60 seconds.  The UK is on course to fly up the international rankings for the proportion of the population …