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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 …

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 …

UKCES Masterclass: Where next for post 19 vocational education and training?

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 …

Employers and universities share their experiences of collaboration

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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 …

Forging Futures: the key to closer university and employer working

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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 …

Raising Standards in the Automotive Retail Sector

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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 …

Extending the ‘Tick’ – A quality mark for the Creative Media Sector

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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 …