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Skills gaps: UKCES explains
This is the first in a series of short articles explaining the labour market, technical jargon, and the skills system. This post uses our UK Employer Skills Survey 2013 data to explain skills gaps in Wales. What is a skills gap? It’s a trickier …
Employers and universities share their experiences of collaboration
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
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 …
"It's an incredible opportunity": Apprenticeships in the third sector
Sheila Cullinan answers the phone friendly and cheerful, willing to contribute her experiences of a skills initiative. The Employer Ownership of Skills pilot has given Twenty Twenty, the charity where she works, the ability to take on two new Apprentices. …
Are things finally getting better?
After six years of grim news on the economy and the labour market, we seem to turned a corner. The question on everybody’s minds is “are things finally getting better?” Because we talk to over 90,000 employers across the UK …
A week's work experience at UKCES
Monday I woke up early at 6:30 on Monday morning, earlier than I am usually up for school, to catch the train from Wokingham to London Waterloo. I was apprehensive about working in a London office and was hoping my …
Minority report - or back to the future?
What will be the next must-have smartphone? Who will win the next British Bake Off? Will it ever stop raining this winter? Attempting to predict events a short distance into the future is difficult enough, but aside from our digital, …
Why employers shouldn’t forget about flexible workers
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Jeremy Anderson, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Research, Skills and training
Flexible and atypical contracts – including temporary, casual and freelance work, along with the more controversial zero hours contracts – have garnered increasing media attention recently, with the issue of zero hours contracts in particular attracting criticism from all corners. …
To My Younger Self: The results are in!
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Reema Malhotra, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Career guidance, Youth employment
Tackling youth unemployment is a huge priority at UKCES and we do it in many different ways. The latest was via our monthly youth employment communications campaign. We asked our Commissioners, staff and Twitter followers to tell us what their …
To my younger self
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David Fairhurst, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Career guidance, Youth employment
When I got my first job as a Personnel Trainee in 1990 I remember feeling that the whole world was changing. Nelson Mandela had just been released from prison; East and West Germany were reunifying to create Europe’s largest national …
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