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Small business leadership: "Not focusing on leadership is mad"
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 …
Small business leadership: FSB on small business leadership and management challenges
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 …
Small business leadership: "I can focus more on leading and less on managing"
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 …
One Minute Monday - firm size in the digital and creative sectors
One Minute Monday showcases a fact or statistic on skills, employment, or the labour market in sixty seconds flat. Get set ... The EGX games show, held a couple of weekends ago at the NEC in Birmingham, saw some of …
One Minute Monday - why do some employers not recruit young people?
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. …
One Minute Monday - employers are taking action on skills gaps
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Tom Maksymiw, Posted on:
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Categories:
Employer surveys, LMI, Research, Research and surveys
One Minute Monday - your weekly stat shot to get your mind ticking in less than a minute. We outline a key statistic about the world of employment and training in sixty seconds. Our definition of a "skills gap" is where …
One Minute Monday - how prepared for work are education leavers?
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Tom Maksymiw, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Employer surveys, Further Education, Higher Education, Research and surveys, Schools, Skills and training, Universities, Youth employment
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 …
Statistics are no substitute for insight and judgement
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Adam Leach, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career guidance, LMI, Research, Research and surveys, Skills and training, Skills system
Imagine you’re buying a house, what would you do? You'd fire up your laptop, search for ‘estate agent’, and put your cursor on the first house you see, before gladly handing over your hard earned cash. Wouldn't you? No, of …
Work Experience Wednesday - Sarah Marsh
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Sarah Marsh, Posted on:
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Categories:
Career development, Skills and training, Universities, Work experience, Youth employment
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
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Tom Maksymiw, Posted on:
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Categories:
Further Education, Higher Education, Research, Research and surveys, Schools, Skills and training, Skills system, Universities
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 …
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