This is our One Minute Monday blog, the shot to our usually pint-sized posts on employment and skills. Lack of relevant experience is often cited by employers as an obstacle to employing young people and work experience is the attribute …
Monday morning means One Minute Monday – in which we explain a single fact on skills or employment in 60 seconds flat. Overall unemployment is falling year on year and did not rise as dramatically as expected during the recession. …
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 …
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, …
As well as our longer-term Apprentices and graduate internships programmes, UKCES hosts a range of work experience placements for those at all stages of education - from schools up to college and throughout university. Over the next few weeks, we'll …
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 …
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 …
Popular culture has it that today’s teens are feckless, work-shy layabouts, happier to play Candy Crush than to put in a solid day’s work. That’s absolutely not a view I subscribe to. Here at Nestlé UK, we employ over 500 …
Youth unemployment is falling – but it is falling more slowly than adult unemployment. And getting a foot on the first rung of the career ladder is still harder to achieve than it was twenty years ago. This is an …
It is a common refrain from employers’ groups that their members are unable to find young employees with the right experience as well as the right skills. Dig a little deeper, and those headlines about feckless youth are often unfounded. …
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