TV Presenter Laura Whitmore is the latest celebrity to be announced as a contestant in the next series of Strictly Come Dancing. She will be thrown together with an unknown professional and take on tangoing and waltzing to the delight …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
With more people leaving university than ever before, employers are in a position to pick the cream of the crop to fill vacancies and help their companies and organisations to succeed. Modern jobs increasingly require employees to be forward thinking, …
In my last blog I introduced a joint piece of work that I am leading between Universities UK and UKCES, which looks at how employers and universities are working together to create alternative pathways to higher level skills, ensuring UK …
As a Commissioner for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) and a vice-chancellor, I’m very interested in the contribution that universities can make to high level skills. The jobs of the future will increasingly need higher skills, particularly …
The Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) visited the UK Commission recently to update us on their work that is being supported by the UK Commission’s investment fund. The retail automotive sector has a poor public image based on stereotypical …
Today’s students are flooded with choice when it comes to picking the right course. With increasing university fees, students need to know they are making the right choice for a successful career. Skillset’s ‘Tick’ accreditation scheme will help students know …
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