One Minute Monday gives a quick fact from our research on employment, skills, and the labour market for you to digest in under sixty seconds. Shortages of workers with Stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) skills are frequently in the …
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 – …
One Minute Monday showcases a fact or statistic on skills, employment, or the labour market in sixty seconds flat. Get set ... The EGX games show, held a couple of weekends ago at the NEC in Birmingham, saw some of …
One Minute Monday - your weekly stat shot to get your mind ticking in less than a minute. We outline a key statistic about the world of employment and training in sixty seconds. Our definition of a "skills gap" is where …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Between December 2014 and April 2015, Ipsos MORI surveyed 100 Captains of Industry and followed up with 20 in-depth interviews on behalf of UKCES, focusing on management and leadership skills. Captains are executive board-level directors and chairs from the top …
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 …
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 …
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