On June 28th 2009, Professor Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travellers. Despite telling plenty of people about the date and time, sending out invitations and patiently waiting for guests to arrive, nobody showed up. The world-renowned physicist sent the …
Much of our working life today is thanks to the Victorians: the way we light our offices (the electric light bulb was patented in 1879), how we get to work (the pedal-driven bicycle was invented in 1838), being able to …
In these quick weekly posts we offer you bite-sized findings from our world-leading labour market research. Our labour market forecasts show that while demand for high skilled jobs are due to increase over the next decade, middle skilled jobs are …
The sharp slowdown we’ve seen in productivity since 2008 has been a puzzle for some time now. As part of the UK Commission’s work on improving our understanding of the puzzle, we have – together with our partners LLAKES – …
...100 ‘Captains of Industry’, followed up by 20 additional in-depth interviews. Captains are executive board-level directors and chairs from the top 500 industrial companies by turnover and top 100 financial...
...into better products and services. This brings competitive advantage and allows businesses to grow and move up the value chain, creating more and better jobs and progression opportunities. Globalisation, technology...
...Leitch Review of Skills' league tables of qualification stocks. The aim was to move our position up the league tables. It was believed that this would automatically deliver productivity gains,...
If you’ve ever lived through a crisis, you’ll know that they come in stages. There might be a sudden event precipitating a rapid fall, or a slow accretion of stresses that suddenly come to a head. And once they’re over …
Hello and welcome to the UKCES blog, plumping up the cushions and making ourselves at home in our new place at GOV.UK. We moved our main website to GOV.UK in...
Two areas of the labour market facing particular difficulties are ‘middle skills’ jobs – jobs requiring vocational qualifications or technical knowledge – and high skilled jobs occupied by graduates. While middle skills roles are experiencing difficulties in recruiting qualified workers, …
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