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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 …

Work Experience Wednesday - Sarah Marsh

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Over the last few weeks, we've been using the UKCES blog to highlight thoughts and reflections from some of the young people who worked with us this summer. As well as our longer-term Apprentices, graduate internship programmes and short-term work experience placements, …

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 …

Hunting for treasure: How can universities and employers work together to regenerate an area?

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This week we've been looking at the ways in which universities and employers are working together to develop high level skills, following the launch our new report with Universities UK. Forging Futures: Building high level skills through university and employer collaboration, …