Everyone at Learning and Work Institute is deeply saddened that Duncan Melville, our Chief Economist, passed away on Sunday 9th January 2022.

Sam Avanzo Windett gives evidence on the Plan for Jobs and Work support to the Work and Pensions Select Committee on 5 January 2022.

Chief Executive at Learning and Work Institute Stephen Evans wrote an article for Campaign for Learning's publication on Reforming Adult Social Care

Yamin was one of a group of peer researchers who worked on Learning and Work Institute's evaluation of EY Foundation's employability programmes move to online delivery during the Pandemic. In this blog, he reflects on why he got involved and what he learnt from the experience.

As part of the second year of Driving Change, we are delighted to celebrate the recent successes of 12 colleges across the UK, who have achieved their Quality Standard in Carer Support (QSCS) accreditation.

Lifelong learning helps grow the economy, gives people opportunities, helps build communities, and saves money for public services. We need to build a lifelong learning century.

We believe that people deserve the opportunity to retrain and relearn again and again – gaining new skills at every stage of life, regardless of where they start, and that is why we feel so passionately about lifelong learning, and how we can more effectively build a culture of lifelong learning that is accessible to all.

Throughout the pandemic, the RSA has been tracking the experience of work amongst so-called ‘key workers’: the health, care, distribution, retail, energy, local government, finance and manufacturing workers that kept the country functioning as we went into repeated lockdowns.

Learning and Work Institute’s centenary year also marks the 25th year since our first annual Adult Participation in Learning survey took place. Each year, our survey – the largest of its kind – provides 5,000 adults with a broad definition of learning, encompassing both formal and informal learning opportunities, and asks them when they last took part.

Stephen Evans, chief executive of Learning and Work Institute responds to the Autumn 2021 Budget and Spending Review.

There are around 900,000 fewer potential workers in the UK than if pre-pandemic trends had continued, finds a new report by Learning and Work Institute.