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15 February 2024
Place-based collaboration: an update from Belfast
As part of our partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust on the VocTech Challenge: Skills for an economy in transition, Zarin Mahmud discusses findings from an in-person workshop with key stakeholders in Belfast.
17 January 2024
Enabling better outcomes: a wider view of apprenticeship success
The St Martin’s Group commissioned Learning and Work Institute to explore the barriers apprenticeship employers face, what they can do to help apprentices complete their programmes, and how to define ‘best outcomes’ of apprenticeships.
12 January 2024
Supporting London’s Migrant Communities through the Adult Education Budget
The GLA has introduced flexibilities to make adult education more accessible to migrant communities. This research explores the impact of these changes.
30 December 2023
Modelling essential skills needs across England
L&W has conducted an England-wide modelling exercise of adults aged 16 to 64, identifying disparities in essential skills levels within local areas which far exceed those between local and combined authorities across the country.
28 November 2023
Driving Change in Higher Education
Learning and Work Institute is working in partnership with The Carers Federation with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to improve the support that young adult carers receive in higher education.
23 November 2023
“No young adult carer should miss out on learning because they care for their families. We are writing to call on you to exempt young adult carers from the 21 hour rule.”
To mark Carers Rights Day 2023, L&W and Carers Trust published an open letter calling on the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to exempt young adult carers from the 21 hour rule in the benefits system.
21 November 2023
Understanding benefits
New analysis shows that most working-age people receiving out-of-work benefits have been assessed as too ill to work or have caring responsibilities. In this report, L&W calls for a step change in support for people who want to work finding work.
6 November 2023
Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2023
For more than 25 years, the Adult Participation in Learning Survey has provided a unique insight into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning. Discover our findings from 2023.
13 October 2023
All change: Understanding and supporting retraining and career change
Advances in technology alongside longer working lives will see more people needing to change jobs and sectors. In this report, L&W calls for an extended Lifelong Learning Entitlement to facilitate this and put an end to the career change penalty.
27 September 2023
The Young Person’s Guarantee
This report from the Youth Employment Group, which L&W co-chair, proposes a new Youth Guarantee to reduce the number of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET).
