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One Minute Monday - which sectors will provide tomorrow's apprenticeships?
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Tom Maksymiw, Posted on:
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Research, Skills and training, Vocational training
Want to expand your knowledge of employment and skills in the next 60 seconds? Read on... Apprenticeships provide a way of learning while earning, as well as helping apprentices into work by equipping them with the job specific skills employers’ …
One Minute Monday - demographic challenges for the health and social care sector
This is our One Minute Monday blog - where, once a week, we outline a fact from our research in under 60 seconds! The health and social care sector is one of the largest in the UK, employing over 4 …
One Minute Monday - UK qualifications since 2000
Got a spare minute? Interested in employment and skills? You’ve come to the right place! This is our One Minute Monday, where we outline a fact from our research in under 60 seconds. The proportion of the UK’s working population without …
Futures programme set to strengthen SME skills
Scott Waddington, Wales Commissioner to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, looks at the benefits small businesses are set to receive after a series of innovative projects were given the green light. Earlier in October, UKCES announced the go-ahead …
One Minute Monday - skills shortages in retail
Welcome to our One Minute Monday blog, where we explain one fact or figure from our research in under 60 seconds! The retail sector is a massive part of the UK economy. In 2014 it contributed £90 billion to the …
Guest post: Faster, leaner, greener construction through offsite manufacturing skills
Rob Francis is Director of Innovation and Business Improvement at Skanska UK. The joint government and industry Construction 2025 strategy outlines some very ambitious targets for the sector. Over the next decade, we need to reduce costs by a third, …
One Minute Monday - Stem graduates' destinations
One Minute Monday gives a quick fact from our research on employment, skills, and the labour market for you to digest in under sixty seconds. Shortages of workers with Stem (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) skills are frequently in the …
UKCES Masterclass: Productivity and slow growth in the UK
The sharp slowdown we’ve seen in productivity since 2008 has been a puzzle for some time now. As part of the UK Commission’s work on improving our understanding of the puzzle, we have – together with our partners LLAKES – …
One Minute Monday - skills shortages: density and occupation
This is our weekly One Minute Monday - our guide to a single fact or stat on employment and skills that you can take in in sixty seconds or less. Our One Minute Monday posts are drawn from our own research …
Small business leadership: From exasperation to doubling revenue
The UK Futures Programme is a series of productivity challenges that target specific workforce development problems. The challenges trial innovative ideas with industry to test what works in addressing current or anticipated workforce development problems identified by UKCES research. The …
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