The Chancellor’s announcement on the extension of several Plan for Jobs schemes at the Conservative Party Conference is welcome. But support needs to go further.

Following our input into Ireland’s ten year Adult Literacy for Life Strategy, we’re pleased to see the inclusion of Learning and Work Institution’s recommendation for a Citizens Curriculum.

L&W is pleased to become a Co-Chair of the Youth Employment Group (YEG), the UK’s largest coalition of youth employment experts. L&W will be offering expertise and strategic direction based on our Youth Commission and extensive research on youth employment and skills prior to and throughout the pandemic.

A new report from Learning and Work Institute and Nesta highlights what we've learned about supporting adults who are most vulnerable to workforce change, to upskill and retrain online.

Our Volunteers, English Language Learners and Conversation Clubs guidance has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious ELTons awards for Innovation in English Language Teaching, in the local innovation category.  

Our Head of Research looks at how local partnerships can help to address some of the challenges we face as the labour market recovers from the Coronavirus crisis.

Richard Alberg reflects on some of the key messages and learnings from this year's Employment and Skills Convention.

The Festival of Learning award winners for 2021 have been announced by Learning and Work Institute. The 12 winners, revealed at an online awards ceremony, include inspiring stories of adult learners, as well as outstanding adult learning provision, tutors and employers. 

Phil Miles, Director of Clarion Futures, on how they're providing meaningful opportunities for young people to prevent a pandemic generation.

Kevin Rowan is Head of Organising, Services and Learning at TUC. Here, he talks about why we need more ambition in our approach to boosting lifelong learning.

The Career Tech Challenge looked at supporting the development of new solutions to help people find rewarding future careers, including those in low pay or insecure work. Our research with the finalists to explores the process of building data-driven solutions. This report explores the findings and highlights how the CareerTech Challenge innovators used labour market data to support adults to plan for their future career.

The last 18 months have been transformative. The coronavirus crisis spearheaded intense change throughout society. From global lockdowns to the economic decline, we have faced unprecedented circumstances that have changed the world. The rapid transformation has been positive for many. However, for some, the pandemic worsened existing inequalities.