Is a ‘career’ a string of jobs which we retrospectively say were all part of a masterplan? I don’t think so, certainly not for most of us. For me, the key element which makes a string of jobs a career …
...lacking the management and leadership skills needed to work across organisational boundaries. Neglecting management and leadership skills, say the Captains interviewed, affects the company’s ability to attract and retain the...
In our latest guest blog, Dr Jan Germen Janmaat, reader in Comparative Social Science at University College London Institute of Education, discusses the key points from his latest UKCES Masterclass on the influence of educational pathways on active citizenship. You can …
I’d like to paint you a picture. Think about the days of small, traditional shops on our high street – where you couldn’t get everything you needed from one place, and would go to each separate butcher, baker and candlestick …
A recent report from NIACE (National Institute of Adult Continuing Education) looks at migration and explores its relationship with the labour market, learning and skills. With growing job creation, and employers increasingly reporting gaps and shortages of necessary skills, this is a …
...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...
From Devo Manc to the Sheffield city deal to the Northern Powerhouse, there’s a buzz around city-level devolution. For those of us working on skills and employment, one of the most exciting elements of this is the possibility of linking local …
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. …
...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,...
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 …
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