Better work
14 November 2024
Delivering a future-ready workforce in engineering and manufacturing for Wales
Welsh industrial heritage demonstrates a long history of excellence in engineering and manufacturing industries, such as, energy, high value manufacturing and farming that continue to remain vital our national economy. Understanding the unique requirements for both engineering and manufacturing in Wales is crucial for creating a future-ready workforce.
10 September 2024
Adult learning: Creating paths to economic fairness
We all know that higher skill and education levels are key drivers of economic success, both for individuals and across geographic areas. If we want Wales to have a prosperous economy where the benefits of that prosperity are distributed evenly, then education and skills are going to be a core focus.
3 June 2024
Place-based collaboration: an update from Newport
Building on the VocTech Challenge green and white papers, Ufi VocTech Trust (Ufi) and Learning and Work Institute (L&W) have developed a programme of place-based partnerships.
3 January 2024
It’s time for all of us to get involved in VET
For much of modern history vocational education and training (VET) was seen as the sole responsibility of employers. In fact it’s quite a recent phenomenon for governments to get involved in VET at all.
14 April 2023
Evaluation of the In-Work Support Service
In June 2022, the Welsh Government appointed Learning and Work Institute to evaluate the latest phase of their In-Work Support Service (IWS). The evaluation started in July 2022 and was completed in October 2022. It follows an initial evaluation of IWS published in April 2019. The objectives were to tackle poverty and social exclusion through sustainable employment in parts of North and South Wales.
15 October 2021
Evaluation of the Degree Apprenticeship Programme
The objectives of the Degree Apprenticeship programme are to help better align the apprenticeship system to deliver the higher-level skills needed by employers and to help enable progression from the existing apprenticeship programme into HE.
9 July 2020
Young people in poorest areas of Wales still left behind after two decades of devolution
The education and employment opportunities young people in Wales can expect are still being dictated by where they live – rather than by their ability – according to new data released by Learning and Work Institute Cymru today. The Youth Opportunity Index, the first of its kind in the country, showed that young people growing up in the most deprived areas like Torfaen, Merthyr Tydfil and Blaenau Gwent, have the least access to opportunities, leaving them facing a double-disadvantage.
