...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,...
This is part of a series of short articles explaining the labour market, technical jargon, and the skills system. The following is based on a recent literature review commissioned by UKCES and completed by Professor David Smallbone of Kingston University. …
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 …
As a UKCES Commissioner and owner of a small business, I often feel somewhat removed from further education and so when the opportunity arose for me to visit Northbrook College in Worthing, I jumped at it. I was given the …
Growth Through People confirms what we have now known for some time – vocational education is not only high up on the education agenda, but for the first time in a generation, it will be a key General Election issue. From …
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, …
...treasure within a community to ensure maximum value? What will make the biggest difference? Who should lead? Employers in the lead The 2006 Leitch Review of Skills argued that a...
This week the UK Commission for Employment and Skills and Universities UK launch a joint report, Forging Futures: Building higher level skills through university and employer collaboration, on how universities are working with employers to develop bespoke and innovative pathways to …
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 …
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